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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Her goal helped the club secure its first berth in the NWSL playoffs, snapping a ninth-place curse that had haunted the team since its debut in 2021.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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So begins a rollicking tale of superstition, a family curse and second chances.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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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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What’s more, Presence imbues the song with a story centered around death, misfortune, and perhaps even malediction.—
SPIN Contributor,
SPIN,
11 Mar. 2024
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“Winze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/winze. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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