Usually means: Malevolent invocation causing harm, misfortune.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. curse, the curse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. curse, the curse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curse, the curse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curse, curse: Wordnik
  7. curse, the curse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curse: Wiktionary
  9. curse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curse, curse, the curse: Dictionary.com
  13. curse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Curse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. curse: Rhymezone
  19. curse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. curse: Free Dictionary
  22. curse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. curse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curse (disambiguation), curse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curse (disambiguation), curse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Curse: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. curse: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. curse: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curse: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. curse, the curse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cursed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
noun:  A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
noun:  The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
noun:  A vulgar epithet.
noun:  (slang, dated, derogatory, usually with "the") A woman's menses.
verb:  (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
verb:  To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
verb:  (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
verb:  (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
verb:  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.

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