accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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(noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
(noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
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(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
(noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
(noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
(noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
(adverb) as might be expected | Synonyms: naturally, of course |
(verb) hunt with hounds | - |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
(verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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(noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
(noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
(noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
(noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
(verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
(verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
(verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
cursed | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: curst |
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(adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
cursedly | (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: damnably, damned |
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cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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(noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
(noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
(verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
(verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
(verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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(noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
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(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
(verb) try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury | - |
(verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, hold |
(verb) serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people | - |
(verb) treat carefully | - |
nursed | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: suckled |
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nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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nurser | (noun) a person who treats something carefully | - |
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nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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(noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
(noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
(noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
(verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
(verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
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recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
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(noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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(verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
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(noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
(noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |
wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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