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Synonyms for curse

Synonyms for curse: jinx and bane. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for curse

Interchangeable with curse in this sense

Audited under curse's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one curse carries in that sense.

  • jinxnoun, in the sense "an evil spell"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name curse as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

  • banebane is a noun in the sense "something causing misery or death"

The first group is filed under curse's own sense. The second reaches curse from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineCommunication

an evil spell

A witch put a curse on his whole family.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

jinx

Same sentence, swapped: A witch put a jinx on his whole family.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

  • oath
  • bane
  • incantation

Where curse turns up in the game

curse is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play curse

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so curse reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. curse carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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