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imprecates

imprecates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of imprecate.

Meaning of imprecate

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

Questions about imprecates

What is imprecates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Imprecates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of imprecate.

Words near imprecates in the dictionary

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

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