What is the difference between curse and cursed?
curse | cursed |
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
* Shakespeare
A vulgar epithet.
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(lb) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed' the fate which had assigned such a duty, ' cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
*Bible, (w) xxii. 28
*:Thou shalt notcurse the ruler of thy people.
(lb) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
(lb) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
*Bible, (w) xxi. 74
*:Then began he to curse and to swear.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:His spirits hear me, / And yet I need must curse .
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.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:On impious realms and barbarous kings impose / Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
(obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
*:LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
*:ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst .
*:BEATRICE. Too curst' is more than '''curst''': I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a '''curst''' cow short horns;' but to a cow too ' curst he sends none.
(curse)
As verbs the difference between curse and cursed
is that curse is to place a curse upon (a person or object) while cursed is past tense of curse.As a noun curse
is a supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.As an adjective cursed is
having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.curse
English
Noun
(wikipedia curse) (en noun)- The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses ", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}