Curse and Magic

Curse

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

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

Nearby Words: cursed, cursing

Magic noun - The power to control natural forces through supernatural means.

Usage example: he claimed that he could summon a storm through magic

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Curse and magic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Curse" instead a noun "Magic".

Nearby Words: magical, magician, mage, magically

old	old curse	old magic
good	good curse	good magic
similar	similar curse	similar magic
true	true curse	true magic
Other adjectives: genuine, divine, powerful, actual, real, dangerous, evil, bad, black, ancient, new, deadly, destructive, strange, last, magical, demonic.

In the series Once Upon a Time, our world is stated to be "the one without magic." And in the first season, when the town was under a curse, magic was in very short supply.

Source: The Magic Comes Back
Granted, there is magic and a curse involved, but still...

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He also discovers that infusing a curse into a sword allows it to act as a conduit for that curse, allowing him to partially bypass an enemy's magic resistance.

Source: Curse

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