Why this word is great
ACCURSE — [Verb] To damn or invoke evil upon someone or something with solemn, formal condemnation. From Middle English acursen, from Old English ācursian, equivalent to the intensive prefix a- + curse. Unlike "execrate," which implies vehement, personal loathing, or "anathematize," a formal, ecclesiastical excision, to accurse is to consign with a terrible, binding gravity. It is the iron nail hammered through a waxen effigy, the salt sown into the foundations of a razed city, the quiet, final sentence of a betrayed king—the human attempt to bend the indifferent universe to a verdict of despair.