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curse out

curse out is the alternative form of cuss out.

Meaning of cuss out

Verb

cuss out (third-person singular simple present cusses out, present participle cussing out, simple past and past participle cussed out)

  1. (US, informal, transitive) To berate (someone or something) using profane language; to swear at (someone or something), especially at length.
    • [A]fter winning a berth on the U.S. Davis Cup team, he was dropped from the competition for the ungentlemanly way in which he cussed out a ball boy.1969 January 3, “Tennis: That Special Feeling”, in Time, retrieved 19 Apr 2014
    Synonyms:
    curse out

Forms of curse out

third-person singular presentcurses out
present participlecursing out
past participlecursed out
pastcursed out

Questions about curse out

What is curse out the alternative form of?
Curse out is the alternative form of cuss out.

Words near curse out in the dictionary

  1. curse like a trooper
  2. curse of Cain
  3. curse of dimensionality
  4. curse of Scotland
  5. curse of the ninth
  6. curse out
  7. curse tablet
  8. curse tablets
  9. curse word
  10. curse words
  11. cursed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curse out (page history and authors); cuss out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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