• (British) IPA: /æˈkə(ɹ)s/, /əˈkə(ɹ)s/

accurse (accurses, present participle accursing; past and past participle accursed)

1. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
   • 1611, King James Version, Joshua 6:17

     And the city shall be accursed.

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631 ↗, page 117 ↗:

     Thro' you, my life will be accurst.