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curare (n.)
1777, from Portuguese or Spanish
curare
, a corruption of the name in the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana,
wurali
or
wurari
, which had a sort of click sound at the beginning, and is said to mean "he to whom it comes falls."