CURSE
What does "CURSE" mean?
An appeal to a supernatural power to inflict harm, or a profane or offensive word.
Meanings
- A solemn utterance intended to invoke harm or misfortune on someone. Legend held that a curse fell on anyone who disturbed the tomb.
- A cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune. For him, fame turned out to be more curse than gift. figurative
- To use offensive or profane language; to swear. He stubbed his toe and cursed loudly.
- To invoke harm or misfortune upon someone. The witch cursed the prince to sleep a hundred years.
Word origin
From Old English 'curs', a word of obscure origin with no clear cognates in other Germanic languages.
Remember it
A CURSE makes you terse and worse - all three rhyme, all three sting.
A little poem
A word let loose to ride the dark and find you-
spoken once, it spends its life behind you.
couplet
What it teaches
Words aimed to wound a stranger circle back to the mouth that loosed them.
Quick facts
What does CURSE mean?
An appeal to a supernatural power to inflict harm, or a profane or offensive word.
Is CURSE a valid word?
Yes — CURSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CURSE?
CURSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CURSE come from?
From Old English 'curs', a word of obscure origin with no clear cognates in other Germanic languages.
What can CURSE teach us?
Words aimed to wound a stranger circle back to the mouth that loosed them.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.