Execrate \Ex"e*crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Execrated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Execrating.] [L. execratus, exsecratus, p. p. of
execrare, exsecrare, to execrate; ex out + sacer holy,
sacred. See Sacred.]
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to
curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to
detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate
their lct." --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
execrate
v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn:
abhor, loathe, abominate]
2: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with
divine punishment [syn: anathemize, comminate, anathemise,
anathematize, anathematise]
WordNet (r) 2.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "execrate":
abhor, abominate, abuse, accurse, anathematize, ban, bark at,
berate, betongue, blacken, blaspheme, blast, censure, condemn,
confound, curse, curse and swear, cuss, damn, darn, denounce,
detest, dysphemize, excommunicate, fulminate against, hate, hex,
hold in abomination, imprecate, jaw, load with reproaches, loathe,
objurgate, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprehend, reprobate,
reprove, revile, scatologize, shudder at, swear, talk dirty,
throw a whammy, thunder against, tongue-lash, utterly detest,
vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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