Word Meanings - ACCURSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to ACCURSE)

• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• CURSE
  1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Shak. 2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or
• ANATHEMATIZE
  To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• EXECRATE
  To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.
• MISERY
  1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think
• ANATHEMATIZER
  One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.
• DEVOTED
  Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• DEVOTEMENT
  The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. Bp. Hurd.
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.