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execrates

execrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of execrate.

Meaning of execrate

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...
  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

Questions about execrates

What is execrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Execrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of execrate.

Words near execrates in the dictionary

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

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