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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kurs
Phonetic Transcription : kɜrs

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Définition of cursing

Origin :
  • Old English cursian, from the source of curse (n.). Meaning "to swear profanely" is from early 13c. Related: Cursed; cursing.
  • verb swear
Example sentences :
  • He fondly imagined that they were cursing hard, if not loud.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • A heavy body stumbled toward them, cursing in strange phrases.
  • Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
  • Everyone is shouting to his animals and cursing in his own language.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • Young Badman 'was greatly given also to swearing and cursing.'
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • He had spent those two months in bed, in cursing, and in worrying the people about him.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Me, Morgan la fée, espouse one of these roistering, cursing foreigners?
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • After her, laughing and cursing in a breath, came a heavy-booted Spaniard.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Thus Sir Terence, cursing the day when he had mated with a fool.
  • Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Harriet was screaming, the horse was kicking, the driver was cursing some other man.
  • Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
  • I groaned, then in a gust of passion I fell to cursing Ramiro for that precaution.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

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