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imprecate

/ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/

imprecate verb: to call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

Verb

imprecate (third-person singular simple present imprecates, present participle imprecating, simple past and past participle imprecated)

  1. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
    • To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

imprecate meaning in Urdu and Bengali

imprecate in Urdu

بددعا کرنا

imprecate in Bengali

অভিশাপ দেওয়া, অমঙ্গল কামনা করা

Forms of imprecate

third-person singular presentimprecates
present participleimprecating
past participleimprecated
pastimprecated

Origin of imprecate

Borrowed from Latin imprecātus, perfect active participle of imprecor (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“upon”) + precor (“to pray”).

Words formed from imprecate

Questions about imprecate

What does imprecate mean?
Imprecate means to call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
What is imprecate in Urdu?
Imprecate in Urdu is بددعا کرنا. See Imprecate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is imprecate?
Imprecate is a verb.
How do you pronounce imprecate?
Imprecate is pronounced /ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/.
What is the past tense of imprecate?
The past tense of imprecate is imprecated.

Words near imprecate in the dictionary

  1. impractical
  2. impracticalities
  3. impracticality
  4. impractically
  5. impracticalness
  6. imprecate
  7. imprecated
  8. imprecates
  9. imprecateth
  10. imprecating
  11. imprecatingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imprecate (page history and authors); imprecate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Imprecate (Bengali 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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