Execrate
['eksɪkreɪt] or ['ɛksɪˌkret]
Definition
(v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Curse, imprecate ill upon.[2]. Abominate, detest, hate, abhor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABOMINATE]
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Definition
v.t. to curse: to denounce evil against: to detest utterly.—adj. Ex′ecrable deserving execration: detestable: accursed.—adv. Ex′ecrably.—n. Execrā′tion act of execrating: a curse pronounced: that which is execrated.—adj. Ex′ecrātive of or belonging to execration.—adv. Ex′ecrātively.—adj. Ex′ecrātory.
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Examples
- Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They both execrated the place in very strong language, and gradually growled themselves out, and had nothing left to say. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Her he DROVE into thought, drove inexorably into knowledge--and then execrated her for it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From the time one starts ashore till he gets back again, he execrates it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Both were bleeding and panting and execrating and struggling; but of course I knew them both directly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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