EXECRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does execrate mean? 

• EXECRATE (verb)
  The verb EXECRATE has 2 senses:

1. find repugnant

2. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment

  Familiarity information: EXECRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they execrate    ... he / she / it execrates   
Past simple: execrated   
Past participle: execrated   
-ing form: execrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Find repugnant

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

abhor; abominate; execrate; loathe

Context example:

She abhors cats

Hypernyms (to "execrate" is one way to...):

detest; hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue execrate the movie

Derivation:

execration (the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated)

execration (hate coupled with disgust)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accurse; anathematise; anathematize; anathemise; anathemize; comminate; execrate

Hypernyms (to "execrate" is one way to...):

deplore (express strong disapproval of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue execrate the movie

Derivation:

execration (the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated)

execration (an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group)

 Context examples 

Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)