transitive. To invoke a curse upon; to declare accursed; to pour maledictions upon.

transitive. = curse, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To curse utterly, lay under a heavy curse.

Hence (without implication of the effect): To imprecate or invoke divine vengeance or evil fate upon; to denounce with adjuration of the divine…

transitive. To curse.

To curse, imprecate damnation upon. archaic.

To confound, ruin, disgrace; to reproach, curse.

to bid (something) misadventure: to curse. to do (a person) misadventure: to bring disaster or ruin upon. Obsolete.

transitive. To curse; = beshrew, v. 3. Chiefly in imprecations I shrew…(occasionally with I omitted).

To invoke evil upon, to wish (one) all that is bad, to invoke a curse on; to curse, objurgate, or blame greatly, as the cause of misfortune. Obsolete.

transitive. (In past tense maledight). To curse.

to fare (also go, come) to mischance: to meet a violent end. to cast (a thing) to mischance: to dispense with gladly. to chase (a person) to mischance…

? To reprobate; to curse. Obsolete.

To devote to some fate by imprecation.

To doom to punishment in the world to come, to damn.

transitive. To curse, calling God to witness; to express abhorrence of, denounce, execrate. Obsolete.

transitive. To bind under oath; to command or appeal to (a person) to do something in the name of God or a god, or under penalty of some…

? = beshrew, v. 3.

transitive. To curse (a person or thing). Also intransitive.

to cover with curses.

transitive. To curse; to pronounce a malediction upon.

To devote or doom (to destruction, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To cancel the inauguration of; to unhallow, make profane.

transitive. To pronounce a curse upon; to declare accursed. to execrate out: to drive out with a curse. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To invoke evil upon (a person); to curse. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To strike or visit with the wrath and curse of heaven; to curse. Often in imprecations in the imperative or optative form (for God blast…

To imprecate damnation upon; to curse, swear at (using the word ‘damn’). Also absol.

transitive. To consign (something) to destruction; to doom. Cf. devote, v. 3a. Obsolete.

To imprecate evil upon by an oath; to address with profane imprecation; gen. to utter maledictions against; to curse.

To invoke or pronounce (a curse). Obsolete.

transitive. To address with maledictions; to curse, execrate. Now rare.

transitive. To threaten (with Divine vengeance), anathematize. Also with cognate object, and intransitive.

In many senses (esp.5b, 7, 8, 9, 10) bless is used euphemistically or ironically for a word of opposite meaning, ‘curse, damn,’ etc.

intransitive. To curse angrily; to exclaim peste! Now only as int.: an exclamation of annoyance.

transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. With out. To swear at or attack verbally; esp. to overcome or drive away by swearing; to rebuke or…

transitive. To curse, damn. Chiefly in imprecations.