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Date: 1100-1200
Origin: curse

accursed

 adjective
     
ac‧curs‧ed
1 [only before noun] formal used to show that something makes you very angry
2 old useROM someone who is accursed has had a curse put on them
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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