Curse and Pox

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

Usage example: uttered a curse upon his persecutor from the scaffold

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

Nearby Words: cursed, cursing

Pox noun - A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks.

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Curse and pox are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Curse" instead a noun "Pox".

You know how Nillipus (that brownie who wanders around Rivervale) says, if you kill him, "I put a curse on your soul and a pox on this land"?

Source: Video Game / EverQuest
In Revenge he gives away Lechuck's beard, enabling his resurrection, in Curse he turns Elaine into a golden statue and in Tales he unleashes a Voodoo Pox.

Source: Video Game / Monkey Island
Eventually he kills his most beloved daughter Ruby Gift in the delusion that she had the Mark Pox and would die horribly anyway — setting in motion the events leading to the Curse.

Source: Fallen Hero

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