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execrate

[ ek-si-kreyt ]

verb (used with object)

execrated, execrating.
  1. to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
  2. to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce:

    He execrated all who opposed him.



verb (used without object)

execrated, execrating.
  1. to utter curses.

execrate

/ 藞蓻办蝉瑟藢办谤别瑟迟 /

verb

  1. tr to loathe; detest; abhor
  2. tr to profess great abhorrence for; denounce; deplore
  3. to curse (a person or thing); damn
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞别虫别藢肠谤补迟颈惫别濒测, adverb
  • 藞别虫别藢肠谤补迟颈惫别, adjective
  • 藢别虫别藞肠谤补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 别虫顎侥路肠谤补顎卼辞谤 noun
  • 耻苍路别虫顎侥路肠谤补迟顎卐诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of execrate1

1555鈥65; < Latin ex ( s ) 别肠谤腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of ex ( s ) 别肠谤腻谤墨 to curse), equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + secr- (combining form of 蝉补肠谤腻谤别 to consecrate; sacrament ) + -腻迟耻蝉 -ate 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of execrate1

C16: from Latin exs别肠谤腻谤墨 to curse, from ex- 1+ -s别肠谤腻谤墨 from sacer sacred
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Many Democrats striving to replace President Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.

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And of the fact that the president has repeatedly execrated the invasion of Iraq that Bolton advocated.

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This man they鈥檇 execrated and denounced had shocked the world鈥攏ot just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!鈥攁nd yet from them this evoked no reaction.

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Though the Democrats鈥 advantage over the GOP in voter identification is not particularly large 鈥 eight points, according to Gallup 鈥 24聽percent of Americans now accept the no-longer execrated label 鈥渓iberal,鈥 up seven points since 1992.

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They properly execrate Obama鈥檚 executive high-handedness that expresses progressivism鈥檚 traditional disdain for the separation of powers that often makes government action difficult.

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