| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment.[Wordnet]
2. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: accursing, accursed, accurses, accurser, accursers, accursingly and accursedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACCURSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1514. (references) |
| Etymology:Accurse \Ac*curse"\, transitive verb. [from Old English expression acursien, acorsien; prefix cursien to curse. See Curse.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ACCURSE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] accurs', To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. [This verb is rarely used. See Curse.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed - Joshua 6:17 Thro' you, my life will be accurst. - Tennyson. (references) | ||
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