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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: something causes misery or death
"the bane of my life";
Similiar / Same: bane, scourge, nemesis
Categories: affliction
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
How to sign: exclude from a church or a religious community
"The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner";
Similiar / Same: excommunicate
