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# accursed

«accursed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Under a curse, or cursed by magic** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (also written accurst)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Under a curse, or cursed by magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/#m1)

2) (old use) Hateful, wicked or wretched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a cruel person or creature under a spell, or a voice cursing its own bad luck

### examples

- The accursed witch turned the prince into a frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/#x1)
- "Accursed genie!" cried the old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/#x2)
- The accursed dragon guarded the gold for many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «accursed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accursed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.