verb

1. To place a curse upon (a person or object).

2. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

3. To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.

Synonyms: swear

adjective

1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

2. Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

3. Hateful; damnable; accursed

   “That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!”