execrate — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To feel loathing for; to abhor.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]

   And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in anguish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.

2. To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   anathematizecomminatecursedamnimprecatemaledictobdurate

3. To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.

Verbo

1. find repugnant

   Sinonimi

   abhorloatheabominate

   Termini più generali

   hatedetest

   Esempi

   I loathe that man

   She abhors cats

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

   Sinonimi

   accurseanathemizecomminateanathemiseanathematizeanathematise

   Termini più generali

   deplore