Meanings (ES + gloss)
maldición
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
If ye will not heare, and if yee will not lay it to heart, to giue glory vnto my name, saith the Lord of hostes; I will euen send a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: y…
maldición
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
maldición
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
mala palabra • maldición
A vulgar epithet.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for…
Phrases
Assad curseAssad must go curseCorsican curseCurselaxOndine's cursePaterson's cursePatterson's curseUndine's curseZelenskyy cursea blessing and a curseblursecommentator's cursecountercursecurse of Caincurse of Scotlandcurse of dimensionalitycurse of the ninthcurse tabletcurse wordcursefulcursefullycurselesscurselikecurseworthyencursegenerational cursenot worth a cursenot worth a tinker's curseprecurseresource cursetinker's cursewinner's curse
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anatematizar • imprecar • maldecir
To place a curse upon (a person or object).
And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come…
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate w…
anatematizar • aojar • imprecar
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
maldecir
To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
maldecir
To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
Phrases