curse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɜːs/    美 /kɝs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
    — If ye will not heare, and if yee will not lay it to heart, to giue glory vnto my name, saith the Lord of hostes; I will euen send a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: yea, I haue cursed them already, because yee doe not lay it to heart.
  2. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
  3. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
    — The common curſe of mankinde, Folly and Ignorance[…]
  4. A vulgar epithet.
    — 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.
  5. A woman's menses. dated,derogatory,slang,usually,with-definite-article
动词 v.
  1. To place a curse upon (a person or object). transitive
    — And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
  2. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
    — Thou ſhalt not[…]curſe the ruler of thy people.
  3. To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. transitive
  4. To use offensive or morally inappropriate language. intransitive
    — Then beganne hee to curſe and to ſweare[…]
  5. 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.
    — On Impious Realms, and barb’rous Kings, impoſe / Thy Plagues, and curſe 'em with ſuch Sons as thoſe.

词形变化

curses plural curses present,singular,third-person cursing participle,present cursed participle,past cursed past curst archaic,participle,past curst archaic,past

词汇关系

衍生词
a blessing and a curse Assad curse Assad must go curse blurse Celtic curse commentator's curse Corsican curse countercurse curseful cursefully Curselax curseless curselike curse of Cain curse of dimensionality curse of Scotland curse of the ninth curse tablet curse word curseworthy encurse generational curse not worth a curse not worth a tinker's curse Ondine's curse Paterson's curse Patterson's curse precurse resource curse tinker's curse Undine's curse winner's curse Zelenskyy curse accurse becurse better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness cursable cursee curse it curse like a pagan curse like a sailor curse like a trooper curse out curser forcurse outcurse uncurse

词源

词源 1
From Middle English curse, kors, cors, curs, from Old English cors, curs (“curse”), of unknown origin.
词源 2
From Middle English cursen, corsen, coursen, from Old English corsian, cursian (“to curse”), from the noun (see above).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary