Rhymes with curse
curse
C c One-syllable rhymes
- burse — a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal
- hearse — a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- pearse — Patrick (Henry), Irish name Pádraic. 1879–1916, Irish nationalist, who planned and led the Easter Rising (1916): executed by the British
- pers — Persia
- perse — of a very deep shade of blue or purple.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- terse — neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- vers — versed sine
- verse — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- worse — in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
Two-syllable rhymes
- adverse — Adverse decisions, conditions, or effects are unfavourable to you.
- averse — If you say that you are not averse to something, you mean that you quite like it or quite want to do it.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
- converse — If you converse with someone, you talk to them. You can also say that two people converse.
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- diverse — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- free verse — verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
- immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
- inverse — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- obverse — the side of a coin, medal, flag, etc., that bears the principal design (opposed to reverse).
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- rehearse — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
- reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- submerse — to submerge.
- trained nurse — graduate nurse.
- transverse — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
Three-syllable rhymes
- graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- intersperse — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- nonsense verse — a form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and with a rhythmic appeal, often employing fanciful phrases and meaningless made-up words.
- privy purse — a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- student nurse — a person who is training to be a nurse at a nursing school or hospital.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- registered nurse — a graduate nurse who has passed a state board examination and been registered and licensed to practice nursing. Abbreviation: R.N.
- visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- licensed practical nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing and has become licensed to provide basic nursing care under the supervision of a physician or registered nurse. Abbreviation: LPN.