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How to sign: utter obscenities or profanities
"The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street";
Similiar / Same: cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
Categories: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize
How to sign: an evil spell
"a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me";
Similiar / Same: hex, jinx, whammy
Categories: charm, magic spell, spell
How to sign: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
"The bad witch cursed the child";
Similiar / Same: beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
Categories: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir
