to accurse

Examples

• All

• If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever!

  The Ten Commandments (1956)

• From then on, I think I was a man accursed.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The location would be known as a place of death, an accursed place, and left alone.

  Blog text (12)

• In my village, there were lucky families and accursed families.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Ah, but tomorrow was too late; he had to get out today, now, had to leave behind this accursed island.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Get that accursed Italian magic thing out of my house.

  Johnny Firecloud (1975)

• For this offense, be thou accursed of God.

  Edward II (1991)

• Perhaps an offering to the local deity will help us find a way out of this accursed place.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I seek protection in Allah from the accursed Satan.

  Five Minarets in New York (2010)

• The witch promised to accurse anyone who disturbed her resting place.

Synonyms

B

to beshrew

vsto accurse

• Archaic

1 9.9

To wish bad things to happen to someone

is less archaic and more often solemn or ritualized

A

to anathematize

vsto accurse

• Formal

1 9.9

To officially say that something is evil and must be rejected

is broader meaning to declare someone under doom without formal ritual

C

to comminate

vsto accurse

• Archaic

9.9

To threaten someone with God's punishment or say they are cursed

is a more general act of declaring someone under doom rather than only solemn threats

A

to anathemize

vsto accurse

• Formal

9.9

To say in public that someone or something is evil and should be avoided

is more focused on solemn divine punishment or formal threats

B

to bedamn

vsto accurse

• Offensive

9.9

To wish harm or a curse on someone

is typically more formal and may include solemn threats of divine punishment

How Cursed

to execrate

• Formal

1 9.9

to accurse

• Archaic

15 9.9

to curse

244 4.8

to damn

• NSFW

275 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology