CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: NOUN
- Menstruation. Used with the.
- A censure, ban, or anathema.
- A profane word or phrase; a swearword.
- A source or cause of evil; a scourge.
- Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal.
- An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
- The expression of a wish of evil to another; an imprecation of evil; a malediction.
- Evil which has been solemnly invoked upon one.
- That which brings or causes evil or severe affliction or trouble; a great evil; a bane; a scourge: the opposite of blessing: as, strong drink is a curse to millions.
- Condemnation; sentence of evil or punishment.
- Literally, a cress: in popular use identified with curse, an imprecation, and used only as a symbol of utter worthlessness in certain negative expressions: as, “not worth a curse,” “to care not a curse,” etc.
- An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- An evil spell
- Something causes misery or death
- A severe affliction
- Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- Something causing misery or death
- A woman's monthly period.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
- See under Cress.
- The nine of diamonds.
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
- An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
- A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
- A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
- A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
- Hence, by euphemism, an oath; an exclamatory imprecation: as, his conversation was garnished with expletives.
- In rhetoric and grammar, a word or syllable which is not necessary to the sense or construction, or to an adequate description of a thing, but which is added for rhetorical, rhythmical, or metrical reasons, or which, being once necessary or significant, has lost notional force.
- Something used to fill up; something not necessary but used for embellishment.
- A word or other grammatical element that has no meaning but is needed to fill a syntactic position, such as the words it and there in the sentences It's raining and There are many books on the table.
- A word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence or a metrical line.
- An exclamation or oath, especially one that is profane, vulgar, or obscene.
- Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.
- A word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers)
- Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant
- Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
- Added or inserted in order to fill out something, such as a sentence or a metrical line.
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: VERB
- Heap obscenities upon
- Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- Utter obscenities or profanities
- Exclude from a church or a religious community
- To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet at someone or something.
- N/A
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To utter curses; swear.
- To put under a ban or anathema; excommunicate.
- To bring evil upon; afflict.
- To swear at.
- To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
- To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.
- N/A
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- See under Bell.
- N/A
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To utter imprecations; affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance; use blasphemous or profane language; swear.
- To bring or place a curse upon; blight or blast with a curse or malignant evils; vex, harass, or afflict with great calamities.
- Hence To put under ecclesiastical ban or anathema; excommunicate; condemn or sentence to the disabilities of excommunication.
- To wish evil to; imprecate or invoke evil upon; call down calamity, injury, or destruction upon; execrate in speech.
- Wish harm upon
- Invoke evil upon
- Serving to fill up; added to fill a vacancy, or for factitious emphasis: specifically used of words. See II., 2.
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: RELATED WORDS
- Oath, Excommunicate, Damn, Swearword, Expletive, Nemesis, Cuss, Blaspheme, Execration, Swear, Scourge, Bane, Torment, Hex, Jinx
- Vulgar, Derogatory, Phrase, Profane, Slur, Ethnic slur, Tirade, Bleep, Infixation, Curse word, Oath, Curse, Swearing, Swearword, Cuss
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Curse word, Bedamn, Condemnation, Swearing, Oath, Excommunicate, Damn, Swearword, Expletive, Nemesis, Blaspheme, Scourge, Bane, Torment, Hex
- Slang, Invective, Vulgar, Derogatory, Phrase, Profane, Slur, Ethnic slur, Tirade, Bleep, Curse word, Oath, Curse, Swearing, Swearword
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- You rescued us from the curse by becoming a curse for us.
- It was so dreaded a curse that the curse itself was left unspoken.
- Sum Curse represents the sum of all curse words in our data set.
- You curse an enemy, inflicting ongoing spirit damage, and then trigger the curse in a devastating explosion.
- CURSE of The EVIL Eye, ANCIENT Curse That STILL Terrifies People Today!
- No curse has affected horse racing odds more than the Apollo Curse.
- But I will curse those who curse you.
- Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, or Curse of Vengeance.
- Curse of Doom, the Curse of Recklessness, the Curse of Tongues, and the Curse of Weakness are all coming back as baseline abilities.
- Detect curse also detects all curse skulls and curse toes on the level.
- Keselowski as an expletive name on the ESPN broadcast.
- Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?
- When you were young, what was the ultimate expletive?
- "My answer to those critics is go (expletive) yourselves.
- Well, I have an excuse to murder (expletive) now.
- "You lemonheaded (expletive)," Martin told McMahon, who is bald.
- There are also three uses of the sexual expletive.
- It is not the expletive there or here.
- Czech, although the pronoun is just expletive here.
- Expletive is a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the expletive.
CURSE vs EXPLETIVE: QUESTIONS
- Is intergenerational punishment a generational curse?
- Is Baal's defense curse the same as the Necromancer's curse?
- Can heads get Curse of binding and Curse of vanishing?
- Can curse be attached to the player who cast the curse?
- Why didn't Dumbledore remove the curse without removing the curse?
- How does The Curse of Pan's Curse change over time?
- Why do some people curse themselves when there is no curse?
- How does busting a curse differ if the curse is on?
- What curse did the mother of Krishna curse her sons?
- Is there a counter curse to the Avada Kedavra curse?
- What did Southwest Airlines pilot say in an expletive tirade?
- When was the last time doctor who had an expletive?
- What are some good expletive-laced Army boot camp quotes?
- When did the word'expletive deleted'become popular?
- How do you avoid expletive constructions in sentences?