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Adjective: maledict  'ma-lu,dikt
Usage: archaic
  1. Under a curse
    - accursed, accurst
Verb: maledict  'ma-lu,dikt
Usage: archaic
  1. Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
    "The bad witch maledicted the child";
    - curse, beshrew [archaic], damn, bedamn [archaic], anathemize, anathemise [Brit], imprecate, doggone [N. Amer, informal], dang [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: maledicted, maledicting, maledicts

See also: cursed, curst

Type of: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir

Encyclopedia: Maledict