"accurse" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /əˈkɜːs/ [UK], /əˈkɝs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-accurse.wav [Southern-England] Forms: accurses [present, singular, third-person], accursing [participle, present], accursed [past], accursed [participle, past], accurst [archaic, participle, past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s Etymology: From Middle English acursen, acoursen, acorsen, equivalent to a- + curse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|acursen}} Middle English acursen, {{m|enm|acoursen}} acoursen, {{m|enm|acorsen}} acorsen, {{af|en|a-|curse}} a- + curse Head templates: {{en-verb|past_ptc2=accurst|past_ptc2_qual=archaic}} accurse (third-person singular simple present accurses, present participle accursing, simple past accursed, past participle accursed or (archaic) accurst)
  1. To damn; to wish misery or evil upon Synonyms: curse, execrate, anathematize Translations (to devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize): проклинам (proklinam) (Bulgarian), vervloeken (Dutch), acursien (Middle English), acorsien (Middle English)

Inflected forms

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