(v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
(v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
(v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
(v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
(v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
(v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(2) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(3) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(4) It has somehow managed to escape the curse of Murdoch, who partly owns it.
(5) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(6) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
(7) Several survivors and family members of the victims who were flown to the US testified this week , and one cursed Bales for attacking villagers as some slept and others screamed for mercy.
(8) The bakers can freeze each layer as it goes on, tensely waiting by the ice box, cursing under their breath.
(9) Still alive, he was then surrounded by people who cursed and spat at him, kicked him in the head and tried to hit him with a chair.
(10) How they got here You'll be forgiven if you thought they were still cursed, if you had been following recent baseball history.
(11) Not a Lynyrd Skynyrd "doom will plague you at every turn" sort of curse, it must be said; more a sequence of mildly irritating events.
(12) In 1 infant diagnosed with Ondine's curse, examination showed diffuse neuronal loss and gliosis in the medullary tegmentum.
(13) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
(14) Maguwu said: "To me it's very clear the diamonds have been a curse to this country.
(15) As Taylor cursed, McClaren embarked on a tactical rejig.
(16) The curse of playing Ari Gold is that Jeremy Piven may have to spend the rest of his life trying to convince the world he is not a rage-fuelled blustering asshole.
(17) They managed to catch two people, aged no more than 30, and were beating them up badly, swearing at them all the time and cursing the Shia clerics, saying: "Where is al-Khomeini now?
(18) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
(19) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(20) This discovered gothic quality within everyday life found one of its finest expressions in the American work of French-born director Jacques Tourneur , especially the brilliant Cat People (1943), Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Night of the Demon (1957).
Hindrance
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
(v. t.) That which hinders; an impediment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased hindrance to diffusion of the probing molecules caused by the added solutes is considered as good evidence that the probing molecules diffuse by way of pores filled with water.6.
(2) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(3) The relative reactivities of three o-substituted phenols can be explained in terms of steric hindrance which is minimal for a single o-substituent.
(4) The lower affinity of C8-substituted 7-methyl-1,3-dipropylxanthines can be explained quantitatively with steric hindrance, which C8-substituents experience from the 7-methyl group in these conformations.
(5) A comparison of the antioxidant activities of eight 1,4-naphthoquinones indicated that methyl substitution of C-2, lack of steric hindrance at C-3 or C-5, and (in the case of weak acids) a relatively high pKa are favorable structural features associated with strong antioxidant activity.
(6) However, no steric hindrance can be seen between subunits when the subunits in carbonmonoxy Hb are substituted with the corresponding subunits in deoxy Hb.
(7) This suggests that the one-carbon binding site can accomodate two one-carbon groups simultaneously without serious steric hindrance.
(8) Inter-molecular spread of the conformational change among the molecules of PVX protein was demonstrated in DAS-ELISA, when capture mAb inhibited binding of detecting mAb in the absence of steric hindrance.
(9) 46% of the fatal accidents were caused by crashing against hindrances.
(10) Partial hindrance was observed for the third antibody mAb delta 22.
(11) Intraocular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) accumulated in severed optic axons but was transported with no obvious hindrance in spared axons alongside the lesion.
(12) The molecular areas at which the phase transition occurs under the various experimental conditions, together with a parallel analysis of the hydration states and related molecular areas of the DPPC molecules in multilayers, strongly suggest that the steric hindrance associated with the hydration water of the polar head of DPPC molecules in the monolayer is responsible for the drastic decrease in diffusion coefficient in the liquid-condensed phase.
(13) The spondylodiscites were no hindrance for dorsal lordosing osteotomies and can be treated successfully by means of this static correction and the immobilisation.
(14) At the experiments with the isolated rat hearts, prepared by Langendorff, the anti-arrhythmic dose-effects of the water-soluble antioxidant fenozan from the class of steric-hindrance phenols were studied at condition of regional ischemia and reperfusion, as well as its action on the coronary flow.
(15) Taken together, these results suggest that tonin bound to alpha 1-macroglobulin keeps the active site intact and that inhibition of the enzyme activity is due to a steric hindrance.
(16) Because these inhibitors bind preferentially at the extracellular surface of the transporter, their effects must result from a conformational change rather than from steric hindrance.
(17) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
(18) Vascular hindrance in muscle, but not hindlimb, was less during nerve stimulation in anemia than at normal Hct.
(19) Intense steric hindrance by introducing an enormously bulky group or complete elimination of the 17 beta-hydroxy group rather decreased the anti-androgenic activity.
(20) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.