CURSE vs SWEAR: NOUN
- An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
- An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
- Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal.
- An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- An evil spell
- 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.
- Condemnation; sentence of evil or punishment.
- 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.
- Evil which has been solemnly invoked upon one.
- Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- Something causes misery or death
- A source or cause of evil; a scourge.
- Menstruation. Used with the.
- A censure, ban, or anathema.
- A profane word or phrase; a swearword.
- The expression of a wish of evil to another; an imprecation of evil; a malediction.
- Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- The nine of diamonds.
- See under Cress.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A woman's monthly period.
- A severe affliction
- Something causing misery or death
- An oath.
- A swearword.
CURSE vs SWEAR: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Heavy.
- Top-heavy; too high.
- Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
- Niggardly.
- A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
CURSE vs SWEAR: VERB
- Utter obscenities or profanities
- Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- Heap obscenities upon
- Exclude from a church or a religious community
- To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet at someone or something.
- To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Utter obscenities or profanities
- Have confidence or faith in
- Make a deposition; declare under oath
- Promise solemnly; take an oath
- (transitive) To take an oath.
CURSE vs SWEAR: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.
- To swear at.
- To bring evil upon; afflict.
- To put under a ban or anathema; excommunicate.
- To utter curses; swear.
- To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
- To declare or affirm solemnly by invoking a deity or a sacred person or thing.
- To make a solemn promise; vow.
- To make a solemn declaration, invoking a deity or a sacred person or thing, in confirmation of and witness to the honesty or truth of such a declaration.
- To commit oneself by oath to giving evidence or testimony that is truthful.
- To give evidence on oath.
- To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
- To place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority.
- To make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something.
- To administer a legal oath to.
- To utter or bind oneself to (an oath).
- To promise or pledge with a solemn oath; vow: : promise.
- To use obscene or blasphemous language; curse.
- To say or affirm earnestly and with great conviction.
CURSE vs SWEAR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- 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.
- See under Bell.
- To declare or charge upon oath.
- To appeal to by an oath.
- To make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.
- To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into.
CURSE vs SWEAR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Invoke evil upon
- Wish harm upon
- To wish evil to; imprecate or invoke evil upon; call down calamity, injury, or destruction upon; execrate in speech.
- Hence To put under ecclesiastical ban or anathema; excommunicate; condemn or sentence to the disabilities of excommunication.
- To bring or place a curse upon; blight or blast with a curse or malignant evils; vex, harass, or afflict with great calamities.
- To utter imprecations; affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance; use blasphemous or profane language; swear.
- To appeal to by an oath; call to witness.
- To declare or charge upon oath: as, to swear treason against a man.
- To put to an oath; cause to take an oath; bind by an oath: as, to swear witnesses in court; to swear a jury.
- To promise in a solemn manner; vow.
- To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God, a divinity, or something held to be sacred for the truth of the declaration: as, to swear an oath.
- To be incongruous or inharmonious (with): followed by at: often said of colors.
- To use profane language; be profane; practise profaneness; use the name or names of God irreverently in common conversation; utter profane oaths; curse.
- To give evidence or make any statement on oath or with an oath; also, to declare solemnly, without an oath, as to the truth of something.
- To utter in a profane manner.
- To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God or to some superhuman being in confirmation of what is affirmed; declare or affirm something in a solemn manner by some sacred being or object, as the Bible or the Koran.
- See sweer.
- To promise something upon oath; vow; make a promise in a solemn manner.
- Make a deposition
- Take an oath
- Promise solemnly
- Declare under oath
- Have faith or confidence in
CURSE vs SWEAR: RELATED WORDS
- Oath, Excommunicate, Damn, Swearword, Expletive, Nemesis, Cuss, Blaspheme, Execration, Swear, Scourge, Bane, Torment, Hex, Jinx
- Cursing, Imprecate, Depone, Bank, Swan, Trust, Rely, Depose, Assert, Aver, Affirm, Curse, Avow, Blaspheme, Cuss
CURSE vs SWEAR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Curse word, Bedamn, Condemnation, Swearing, Oath, Excommunicate, Damn, Swearword, Expletive, Nemesis, Blaspheme, Scourge, Bane, Torment, Hex
- Assure, Bet, God, Vow, Tell, Oath, Cursing, Bank, Swan, Trust, Rely, Assert, Affirm, Curse, Blaspheme
CURSE vs SWEAR: 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.
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- Most snowboarders swear by Flux or Union bindings.
- That I should swear by Allah upon a lie is more preferable to me than that I should swear by another upon the truth.
- Chief, did Bird, swear you in, or did your father swear you in again?
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- Than swear or if need for instructions say what state to support your jurisdiction, ready to swear or reject.
- And I swear, listeners, I swear that in the moment of crossing, I felt a single claw graze against my back.
- We do swear a lot, and we swear often.
- My kids never swear and if they repeat a swear word they ask me for permission first.
- If you order me to swear, I will swear.
CURSE vs SWEAR: 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?
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