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third-person singular simple present execrates, present participle execrating, simple past and past participle execrated
(transitive) to feel loathing for; to abhor quotations examples
And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in angish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus
(transitive) to declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce examples
(intransitive, archaic) to invoke a curse; to curse or swear quotations
He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
1914 June, James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards