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imprecating

imprecating is the present participle and gerund 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 imprecating

What is imprecating the present participle and gerund of?
Imprecating is the present participle and gerund of imprecate.

Words near imprecating in the dictionary

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

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