Synonyms of the word

curse

• n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
• n. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
• n. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
• n. A vulgar epithet.
• n. (slang) A woman's menses.
• v. (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
• v. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
• v. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which…

abuse

• n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
• n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
• n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
• n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
• n. (now rare) Catachresis.
• n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
• n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
• v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
• v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

affliction

• n. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
• n. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

arouse

• v. To stimulate feelings.
• v. To sexually stimulate.
• v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

bane

• n. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.
• n. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
• n. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
• n. (obsolete) destruction; death.
• n. A disease of sheep; the rot.
• v. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
• v. (transitive) To be the bane of.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) bone.

bedamn

• v. (transitive) To damn or curse roundly or with iteration and emphasis; damn all over.

beshrew

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
• v. (transitive) A mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation, in the form of the imperative.

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

blaspheme

• v. (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
• v. (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
• v. (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
• n. Obsolete spelling of blasphemy.

charm

• n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
• n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
• n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
• v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
• v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
• n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

clapperclaw

• v. (obsolete) To fight and scratch.
• v. (obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold.

condemnation

• n. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
• n. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming…
• n. The state of being condemned.
• n. The ground or reason of condemning.
• n. The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.

conjure

• v. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
• v. (transitive) To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil.
• v. (intransitive) To practice black magic.
• v. (transitive) To evoke.
• v. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

cuss

• v. (chiefly US) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse word.
• n. (dated, chiefly US) A fellow, person.

damn

• v. (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
• v. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
• v. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
• v. To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
• v. (vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
• v. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
• adj. (vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
• adv. (vulgar) Very, extremely.
• interj. (vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. See also dammit.
• n. The use of "damn" as a curse.
• n. (vulgar) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value.
• n. (vulgar) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

denouncement

• n. An act of denouncing; a denunciation.
• n. A solemn or formal declaration.

denunciation

• n. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
• n. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly…
• n. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.

evoke

• v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

exclude

• v. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
• v. To expel; to put out.
• v. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
• v. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

excommunicate

• adj. Excommunicated.
• n. A person so excluded.
• v. (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
• v. (transitive, historical or figuratively) To exclude from any other group; to banish.

execration

• n. An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression…
• n. That which is execrated; a detested thing.

expletive

• adj. Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
• adj. Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
• n. A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
• n. (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
• n. (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; an intensifier.

express

• adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
• adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
• adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
• adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
• n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
• n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
• n. An express rifle.
• n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
• n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
• n. An express office.
• n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
• v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
• v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
• v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
• v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
• n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
• n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

hex

• v. To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
• n. An evil spell or curse.
• n. A witch.
• n. (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
• n. (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
• n. A hexagonal space on a game board.
• n. (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other…

imprecate

• v. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
• v. (transitive) To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.

invoke

• v. (transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
• v. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
• v. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
• v. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
• v. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

jinx

• n. A hex; an evil spell.
• n. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
• v. (transitive) To cast a spell on.
• v. (transitive) To bring bad luck to.
• interj. Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person…

maledict

• adj. accursed, cursed.
• v. To curse.
• v. To berate.

nemesis

• n. (chiefly Canada, US) An archenemy.
• n. (chiefly non-North American usage) A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of…
• n. The principle of retributive justice.
• n. (usually in the singular, formal) A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided.
• n. The polar opposite of a character.
• n. A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

oath

• n. A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or…
• n. The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath.
• n. A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to…
• n. A curse.
• n. (law) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
• v. (archaic) to pledge.

profanity

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being profane.
• n. (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

scourge

• n. (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread…
• n. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
• n. A whip, often of leather.
• v. To strike with a scourge, to flog.

shout

• n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot;…
• n. (Britain, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
• n. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme. (also shout…
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention,…
• v. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out.
• v. (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
• v. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.

shut

• v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
• v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
• v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
• adj. closed.
• n. The act or time of shutting; close.
• n. A door or cover; a shutter.
• n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
• n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

spell

• n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
• n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
• n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
• v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
• v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
• v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
• v. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
• v. To constitute; to measure.
• v. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
• v. (transitive) To rest (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
• n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
• n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
• n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short…
• n. A period of rest; time off.
• n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
• n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
• n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
• n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

stir

• v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
• v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
• v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
• v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
• v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
• n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
• n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
• n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
• n. (slang) Jail; prison.

swear

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To take an oath.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive language.
• n. A swear word.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
• v. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

swearing

• v. present participle of swear.
• n. The act of swearing, or making an oath.

swearword

• n. Alternative spelling of swear word.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

unchurch

• v. To expel from membership of a congregation or church; to excommunicate.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

whammy

• n. a serious or devastating setback.
• n. an evil spell; a curse or hex.