execrate

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English

Etymology

From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (out) + sacrāre (to consecrate, declare accursed).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/, /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/
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Verb

execrate (third-person singular simple present execrates, present participle execrating, simple past and past participle execrated)

  1. (transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
    • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), , chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume I, London: ">…] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 161:
      Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ;
    • 1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus, page 66:
      And were I not a thing for you and me
      To execrate in anguish, you would be
      As indigent a stranger to surprise,
      I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
  2. (transitive) To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
    Synonyms: anathematize, comminate, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict, obdurate
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.

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Latin

Participle

execrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of execrātus

Spanish

Verb

execrate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of execrar combined with te