execrate

UK /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/ US /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To feel loathing for; to abhor.

Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]

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

To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.

3

To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.

He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.

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