curse
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
expletives were deleted
Types & categories
- profanity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
utter obscenities or profanities
The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street
Types & categories
- utter hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
Types & categories
- denunciation hypernym
- anathema hyponym
- imprecation hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
heap obscenities upon
The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger
Types & categories
- blackguard hypernym
Related & opposite
- oath derivation
Sense 5 noun
an evil spell
a witch put a curse on his whole family
Types & categories
- magic spell hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
The bad witch cursed the child
Types & categories
- bring up hypernym
Related & opposite
- bless antonym
- hex derivation
- damnation derivation
- execration derivation
- imprecation derivation
- eternal damnation derivation
- damnatory derivation
Sense 7 noun
something causing misery or death
the bane of my life
Types & categories
- affliction hypernym
Related & opposite
- devastate derivation
Sense 8 verb
exclude from a church or a religious community
The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner
Types & categories
- keep out hypernym
Related & opposite
- communicate antonym
- excommunication derivation
- excommunication derivation
- excommunicate verb group
Sense 9 noun
a severe affliction
Types & categories
- affliction hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | curse |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | curse |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | profanity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | oath |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swearer |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | blaspheme |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | utter |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | accurse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | damn |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | denunciation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | anathema |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | imprecation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | oath |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | blackguard |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | glamour |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | damn |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | magic spell |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | bless |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | hex |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | damnation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | execration |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | imprecation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | eternal damnation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | damnatory |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring up |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastate |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | affliction |
| 8 | antonym | Related & opposite | communicate |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | excommunication |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | excommunication |
| 8 | verb group | Related & opposite | excommunicate |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | keep out |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | affliction |