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CURSED WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cursed with mean? 

CURSED WITH (adjective)
  The adjective CURSED WITH has 1 sense:

1. burdened withplay

  Familiarity information: CURSED WITH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CURSED WITH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Burdened with

Synonyms:

cursed with; stuck with

Context example:

stuck with the tab

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)


 Context examples 


Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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