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Imprecate

//ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. transitive

    "To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]"

  2. 2
    utter obscenities or profanities wordnet
  3. 3
    wish harm upon; invoke evil upon wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imprecātus, perfect active participle of imprecor (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“upon”) + precor (“to pray”).

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