execrate

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Apple-bashers will execrate, and Jobsian fanboyz will venerate the munificence that flows unabated from The Great Steve.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.
  2. transitive verb To feel loathing for; abhor.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To invoke a curse on.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

execrate hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 97 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin execrārī, execrāt- : ex-, ex- + sacrāre, to consecrate (from sacer, sacred; see sak- in Indo-European roots).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin execratus, exsecratus, past participle of execrare, exsecrare (= Italian esecrare = Spanish Portuguese execrar = French exécrer), take a solemn oath with imprecations, curse, from ex, out, + sacrare, consecrate, also declare accursed: see sacred. Cf. consecrate, desecrate.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈɛksəkreɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

tirade · reciprocity · chickenpox · foreclosed · prudent

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket