What's the difference between accurse and anathemise?

Accurse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

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  • (1) In one of his last letters, he voiced his dismay at the disorder he fought for so much of his life: “Oh, if I could have worked without this accursed disease - what things I might have done.” In 2014, Rothernberg published a book, “ Flight of Wonder: an investigation of scientific creativity ”, in which he interviewed 45 science Nobel laureates about their creative strategies.
  • (2) How can that compare with the surging joy of flattening Arsenal, of dismantling Arsène Wenger's team and savouring a rout rather than the accursed moral victory in which Spurs have too often traded?
  • (3) Then they went home and played the accursed thing, and second-hand shops nationwide braced themselves for the deluge.
  • (4) Four decades on, in a world (and an America) accursed by poverty and drugs, there is almost universal agreement that the war on drugs has failed as thoroughly as that on poverty.
  • (5) Accursed Kings series Maurice Druon £11.99 (prices for the rest of the series may vary) The book that inspired George RR Martin’s epic, Game of Thrones.
  • (6) It was a price that far exceeded expectations for the famously troubled site, which had already foiled a previous attempt to revive it by Brookfield Multiplex in 2011 – an effort that ended in a sticky mess of legal battles over the accursed stump.
  • (7) I never meant to give up the possibility of a lucrative career in the law just to be an advocate for the accursed and rejected – and to be accursed and rejected myself.
  • (8) Vanessa McC (@NeedaGin) @GuardianTeach working my way thru the Accursed Kings series (on book 4 atm).
  • (9) Gentlemen in England now abed, or just watching it on TV, will think themselves accursed they weren’t there.
  • (10) He preaches under the slogan "Any diversion from the true path will be the path of accursed Satan".
  • (11) Van Gogh put it best: “If I could have worked without this accursed disease, what things I might have done.
  • (12) I felt if I was doomed already to be thrown into this accursed land, then at least I would map it as much as I could, and for me mapping is writing about it.
  • (13) It was my accursed honour, along with Penny Marshall of ITN, to stumble into and reveal the existence of concentration camps in the far north-west of Bosnia, Omarska and Trnopolje, into which thousands of non-Serbs were corralled to be killed, tortured, raped – and the survivors deported.
  • (14) We were climbing one of the seemingly interminable flights of limestone steps when Speer observed an enormous ragweed, an accursed thing the size of a sequoia, sprouting from a crack in the limestone cladding covering the reinforced concrete understructure.

Anathemise


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