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torment

n. a severe affliction

hex, jinx

n. an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"

condemnation, execration

n. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

scourge, affliction, bane, nemesis

n. something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"

oath, swearing, expletive, swearword, cuss, curse word

n. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"

heap obscenities on

v. heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"

excommunicate

v. exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"

cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate

v. speak of in an irreverent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"

hell, blaze

n. a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"

witch, enchantress

n. a female sorcerer or magician

wizard, magician, sorcerer, necromancer

n. one who practices magic or sorcery

sorceress

n. a woman sorcerer

charm, good luck charm

n. something believed to bring good luck

punishment, penalty, penalization

n. the act of punishing

plague, pestilence

n. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

opposition, enemy, opponent

n. a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"

adversary, antagonist, opponent

n. someone who offers opposition

rival, challenger, competitor, contender

n. the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

poison

n. any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

devastation, ruin, desolation

n. the state of being decayed or destroyed

imprecation, malediction

n. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"

commonness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism

n. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

veto, interdict, forbid, prohibit, proscribe, disallow

v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

turn out, expel, eject, exclude, throw out, boot out, kick out, turf out, chuck out

v. put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"

expel, throw out, kick out

v. force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"

outrage, desecrate, violate, profane

v. violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"

communicate, administer communion

v. administer communion; in church

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