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say it: kurs
curse is a noun and verb meaning "profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger". It carries 9 recorded senses.
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
a severe affliction
heap obscenities upon
“The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger”
wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
“The bad witch cursed the child”
exclude from a church or a religious community
“The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for curse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.