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execrating

execrating is the present participle and gerund 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 execrating

What is execrating the present participle and gerund of?
Execrating is the present participle and gerund of execrate.

Words near execrating in the dictionary

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

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