Curse and Hell

Curse

Curse noun - A prayer that harm will come to someone.

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Hell and curse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hell" instead a noun "Curse".

Nearby Words: cursed, cursing

Hell noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.

Usage example: picking cotton under the hot summer sun was hell

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Curse and hell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Curse" instead a noun "Hell".

Nearby Words: hellish, hellion

good	good curse	good hell
original	original curse	original hell
single	single curse	single hell
actual	actual curse	actual hell
Other adjectives: entire, real, evil, infamous, terrible, living, possible, eternal, legendary, last, literal, aforementioned.

Moby-Dick: Captain Ahab's curse "from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" turns out to be a dying curse, as moments later the line of the harpoon he has struck into Moby Dick gets wrapped around his neck and pulls him overboard, never to be seen again.

Source: Dying Curse
In the book and movie Rasen, not only do the surviving characters of Ring die, but the curse turns out to be a hell of a lot worse than we thought.

Source: Downer Ending / Film
Eugenio tells that all those shepherds curse Leandras indiscretion and they seem so unhappy that he lampshades that Arcadia is really a living hell.

Source: Arcadia

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