as in curse
a prayer that harm will come to someone
uttered a bitter winze upon the laird who had cast them off the land
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Recent Examples of winze
In 1968 and 1969, the U.S. Bureau of Mines borrowed the tunnel and tested some blasting and drilling techniques in a gently sloping side channel called a winze.
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Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for winze
Noun
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Christopher Walken stars as a school teacher who comes out of a coma with a gift that feels more like a terrifying curse.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 May 2025
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While Rory McIlroy finally broke his 11-year curse to claim the green jacket, Bradley struggled, missing the cut with a 3-over-par.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.—
Lauren Collins,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2024
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Without faith, youth is open more to destructive secular influences similar to fatherless children being open to the maledictions of gangs rather than the counsels found in a loving and caring and attentive two-parent home.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Feb. 2024
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“Winze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/winze. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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