Word Meanings - EXECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXECRATE)

• Abominate
• Abhor
• loathe
• detest
• execrate
• hate
• Curse Execrate
• Hoot
• Hiss
• denounce
• sibilate
• decry

Related words: (words related to EXECRATE)

• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• ABHORRENCY
  Abhorrence. Locke.
• DECRY
  To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• SIBILATE
  To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• EXECRATE
  To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.
• ABHORRENT
  1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover. 2.
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;
• ABHORRIBLE
  Detestable.
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• DETESTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being detestable.
• DETESTATE
  To detest. Udall.
• DETESTABILITY
  Capacity of being odious. Carlyle.
• DENOUNCER
  One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• DETEST
  calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a 1. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale. 2.
• LOATHE
  1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley. 2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate. The secret which I loathe. Waller. She loathes the vital sir. Dryden. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; detest;
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• SELF-ABHORRENCE
  Abhorrence of one's self.
• OCCURSE
  See BENTLEY