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Execrate

//ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To feel loathing for; to abhor. transitive

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

  2. 2
    curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment wordnet
  3. 3
    To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce. transitive
  4. 4
    find repugnant wordnet
  5. 5
    To invoke a curse; to curse or swear. archaic, intransitive

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

Etymology

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

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