denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication,
commination†, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha†;
aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language,
unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing
&c v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach,
scurrility.
threat &c 909; more bark than bite; invective &c (disapprobation)
932.
V. curse, accurse†, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and
candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of;
devote to destruction.
execrate, beshrew†, scold; anathematize &c (censure) 932; bold up
to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder
against; threaten &c 909.
curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap
out an oath, damn.
Adj. cursing, cursed &c v..
Int. woe to!, beshrew!†, ruat coelum! [Lat.], ill betide, woe betide;
confusion seize!, damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to
hell!, go to blazes!, confound!, blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!,
out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt!†, honi soit! [Fr.],
parbleu! [Fr.],
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.].