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execrate

verb

  1. to detest utterly
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/ / /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/

verb

Etymology: From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).

  1. To feel loathing for; to abhor.

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

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