malediction

Word family adjectivemaledicentmaledictmaledictivemaledictorynounmalediction

Related topics: Magic

mal·e·dic·tion /ˌmæləˈdɪkʃən/ noun [countableC]

old-fashioned formalROMMAGIC a wish that something bad will happen to someone 诅咒 SYN curse

Examples from the Corpus

malediction• It is a kind of malediction.• As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction.

Origin malediction

(1300-1400) Late Latin maledictio, from Latin maledicere “to speak evil”

单词	malediction
释义	malediction Word family adjectivemaledicentmaledictmaledictivemaledictorynounmalediction Related topics: Magic mal·e·dic·tion /ˌmæləˈdɪkʃən/ noun [countableC] old-fashioned formalROMMAGIC a wish that something bad will happen to someone 诅咒 SYN curse Examples from the Corpus malediction• It is a kind of malediction.• As if that quest were not macabre enough in itself, I went as if under some sort of malediction. Origin malediction (1300-1400) Late Latin maledictio, from Latin maledicere “to speak evil”
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