ACCURSE

Definition: ACCURSE

ACCURSE

Transitive verb

1. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ACCURSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Accurse \Ac*curse"\, transitive verb. [from Old English expression acursien, acorsien; prefix cursien to curse. See Curse.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malediction	Verb: curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "accurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		accurseay.(various references)

Russian		проклинать (anathematize, curse, execrate, imprecate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	scelestus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ACCURSE": accursed, accursedly, accursedness, accursednesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"ACCURSE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accerse, accruse, accuire, accur, accure, accurist, accurrs, accurs, Accursius, acure, cacares. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: accrues, accuser.
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: accrue, accuse, causer, cercus, cesura, cruces, saucer, scarce.
	-2 letters: acres, arcus, aures, cares, carse, cause, cruse, cures, curse, cusec, ecrus, escar, races, sauce, scare, scaur, serac, sucre, urase, ureas, ursae.
	-3 letters: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, ceca, crus, cues, cure, curs, ears, ecru, ecus, eras, race, rase, recs, rues, ruse, scar, sear, sera, suer, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user.
	-4 letters: ace, arc, are, ars, car, cue, cur, ear, eau, ecu, era, ers, ras, rec, res, rue, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, ser, sue, use.
	-5 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, re, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: accursed, accusers, caesuric, curacies, reaccuse.
	+2 letters: accouters, accoutres, cancerous, caruncles, coruscate, craunches, creamcups, crustacea, reaccused, reaccuses, recusancy.
	+3 letters: accuracies, accursedly, buccaneers, calcareous, carbuncles, cartouches, circulates, coriaceous, coruscated, coruscates, cranreuchs, crustacean, curvaceous, ericaceous, racecourse, reaccusing.
	+4 letters: accoucheurs, accruements, archduchess, archduchies, autocracies, calciferous, cancerously, caricatures, circularise, coinsurance, cotransduce, counteracts, crepuscular, crustaceans, crustaceous, eucharistic, excruciates, nutcrackers, precalculus, racecourses, recusancies, reluctances, scaramouche, scoriaceous, spectacular.
	+5 letters: acculturates, accurateness, accursedness, acupunctures, articulacies, buccaneerish, calcareously, carbonaceous, charcuteries, circularised, circularises, circularizes, circularness, circumstance, coadjutrices, coinsurances, contractures, cotransduced, cotransduces, encumbrances, inaccuracies, macronucleus, microcapsule, noncancerous, orchidaceous, plutocracies, precancerous, recalculates, recirculates, reluctancies, scaramouches, secularistic, semicircular, spectaculars, translucence, translucency.
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