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CURSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
Example:
I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning
Synonyms:
cursed; curst
Classified under:
Similar:
accursed; accurst; maledict (under a curse)
blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal (expletives used informally as intensifiers)
cursed with; stuck with (burdened with)
damn; goddamn (used as expletives)
damnable; execrable (deserving a curse)
Antonym:
blessed (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace))
Sense 2
Meaning:
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Example:
poor damned souls
Synonyms:
cursed; damned; doomed; unredeemed; unsaved
Classified under:
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
Domain category:
Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb curse
Context examples:
And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"This parlour is not his sphere," I reflected: the Himalayan ridge or Caffre bush, even the plague-cursed Guinea Coast swamp would suit him better.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You cursed fools, you are trapped, every one of you!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This is a cursed shabby trick!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Again I heard from her own lips things that made my blood boil, and again I cursed this brute who mishandled the woman I loved.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had hitherto concealed the secret of my dress, in order to distinguish myself, as much as possible, from that cursed race of Yahoos; but now I found it in vain to do so any longer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Having warbled his thanks and put the potions in his boots, Hugo departed, and Hagar informed the audience that as he had killed a few of her friends in times past, she had cursed him, and intends to thwart his plans, and be revenged on him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The cub struggled and cursed and squirmed, but did not offer to bite.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
