Dictionary entry

The curse

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Definition

curse /kɜ:s/ n ၁။ [C] ဆဲေရးစကား။ ဖ႐ုသဝါစာ။ muttering obscene curses. ၂။ [sing] က်ိန္စာ။ က်ိန္ဆဲစကား။ The witch put a curse on him (ie used a curse against him). ❍ be under a curse (ie suffer as a result of a curse). Compare BLESSING ၁ ၃။ [C] ကံေချခင္း၊ ေဘးသင့္ျခင္း၊ ပ်က္စီးျခင္း စသည္၏ အေၾကာင္းခံ။ the curse of poverty ❍ People who drive in the middle of the road are a curse! ၄။ the curse [sing] ( infml euph ) ဓမၼတာလာျခင္း။ ရာသီ ေပၚျခင္း။ I got the curse today. v (က) ဆဲေရးတိုင္းထြာသည္။ to curse and swear ❍ He cursed his bad luck. ❍ I cursed her for spoiling my plans. ❍ I cursed myself for my stupidity. (ခ) က်ိန္သည္။ က်ိန္ဆဲသည္။ က်ိန္စာတိုက္သည္။ The witch-doctor has cursed our cattle. Compare BLESS ၁ ❏ be cursed with sth [ PHRV ] က်ိန္စာမိသလို အၿမဲ ျဖစ္ ေနသည္။ be cursed with ill health/ a violent temper/ bad luck. ❏ cursed /'kɜ:sÇd/ adj ( infml ) မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕စရာ။ This work is a cursed nuisance.

Examples

  1. He looked at his watch
  2. cursed
  3. and ran for a taxi.
  4. Joe will be cursing me when he finds out I’ve gone in without him.
  5. I cursed myself for being such a fool.