malediction

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MALEDICTION

a prayer that harm will come to someone <the two old women began casting aspersions and heaping maledictions upon one another>

Synonyms anathema, ban, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, winze [Scottish]

Related Words censure, condemnation, damnation, denunciation, excommunication; hex, hoodoo, jinx, mojo, spell, voodoo, whammy; pox

Near Antonyms citation, commendation, endorsement (also indorsement)

Antonyms benediction, benison, blessing

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