curse
noun
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
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If the devil himself visited Chance Along he would look to the skipper to outwit, outcurse and out-devil him.
From The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts