curse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
3. isim 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. isim 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. isim A woman's menses.
6. fiil To place a curse upon (a person or object).
7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
9. fiil To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

   “Then beganne hee to curſe and to ſweare[…]”

10. fiil 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.”