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curst

[ kurst ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of curse.


adjective

curst

/ kɜːst /

verb

  1. archaic.
    a past tense and past participle of curse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. a variant of cursed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • curstly adverb
  • curstness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of curst1

First recorded in 1545–55, for the adjective
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Example Sentences

There was at the seminary a curst Lazarist, who by undertaking to teach me Latin made me detest it.

He sat silent after that, and as there seemed nothing that a curst old campaigner could say at such a pass, I bore him company.

What secrets can the human breast contain, When tempted by thy charms, curst love of gain!

The days were insufferably hot and mosquito-curst; the nights chilly, damp and mosquito-haunted.

Of that fatal lapse the cause Was the curst pride of him, whom thou hast seen Pent with the world's incumbrance.

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