execrate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
/ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/
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/ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/ · /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/
Definition of execrate
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)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.”
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verb
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(transitive)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.”
- (transitive)To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
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(archaic, intransitive)To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
“He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).
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