execrate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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