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execrate

/ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/

execrate verb: to feel loathing for; to abhor.

Verb

execrate (third-person singular simple present execrates, present participle execrating, simple past and past participle execrated)

  1. (transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
    • Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding...
    • 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.1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus, page 66
  2. (transitive) To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
    • He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 109

execrate meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

execrate in Bengali

অভিশাপ দেওয়া, ঘৃণা প্রকাশ করা

execrate in Malayalam

ശപിക്കുക, പിരാകുക, വെറുക്കുക, നിന്ദിക്കുക, ശപിക്കപ്പെട്ട, മുടിഞ്ഞ

execrate in Kannada

ಹೀಗಳೆ, ಹೇಸು

Synonyms of execrate

All synonyms of execrate

Forms of execrate

third-person singular presentexecrates
present participleexecrating
past participleexecrated
pastexecrated

Origin of execrate

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

Words formed from execrate

Questions about execrate

What does execrate mean?
Execrate means to feel loathing for; to abhor.
What is execrate in Bengali?
Execrate in Bengali is অভিশাপ দেওয়া, ঘৃণা প্রকাশ করা. See Execrate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is execrate?
Execrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce execrate?
Execrate is pronounced /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of execrate?
The past tense of execrate is execrated.

Words near execrate in the dictionary

  1. execed
  2. execing
  3. execrable
  4. execrableness
  5. execrably
  6. execrate
  7. execrated
  8. execrates
  9. execrating
  10. execration
  11. execrations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: execrate (page history and authors); execrate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); execrate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); execrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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