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execrate
/ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/
verb 3
Collocations
3VERB + EXECRATE
longed
EXECRATE + NOUN
aloud, anguish
PREP.
in
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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Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]
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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.
Wiktionary03
He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
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