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Accurse
Definition:
(v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Example Sentences:
(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.