BESHREW

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

Example:

The bad witch cursed the child

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "beshrew" is one way to...):

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody