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单词 execrate
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Definition of execrate in English:

execrate

verb ˈɛksɪkreɪtˈɛksəˌkreɪt
  • 1with object Feel or express great loathing for.

    憎恶,憎恨;痛斥,痛骂

    they were execrated as dangerous and corrupt

    他们被痛斥为危险的腐败分子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff.
    • Such memoirs are naturally far removed from the poverty-riven atmosphere and harsh realities say of the recently widely acclaimed, and execrated, Angela's Ashes.
    • Her immigration policy is supported by most Australians, execrated though it be by our politically correct ABC.
    • Those who disagreed with his theories were execrated and removed from their posts, sometimes with the help of the NKVD.
    • I found that I didn't much miss Ireland as such, and in fact in many ways I execrated it.
    • Clemency to the recently execrated terrorists marked the Convention's response to the Vendémiaire crisis, both in the build-up to the insurrection and in its aftermath.
    • Those who murdered tourists in Egypt were widely execrated and not just because they threatened to ruin the tourist industry.
    • Just because he remained so steadfast in an execrated cause, entry into the acceptance world seems to have acquired all the more value.
    • George is certainly mocked, but he is not execrated as a vile foreigner and un-British despot, as he had been by satirists and cartoonists in the 1760s and 1770s, when he was widely despised.
    • That was fortunate for Concord; after March 7, when the great orator endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law, Webster was execrated by many of his one-time worshipers.
    • Unionists would praise the prescience of the men of 1707, Jacobites and nationalists would execrate them, but in itself such a union was probably no more momentous than its architects were moral.
    • But it transformed the professor of comparative literature at Columbia into a very public intellectual, adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers.
    • Didn't Trotsky execrate those who claimed to believe there was nothing to choose between democracy and fascism?
    • There, Alexander is to be execrated because he conquered foreign peoples and overthrew an ancient empire.
    Synonyms
    revile, denounce, decry, condemn, vilify
    detest, loathe, hate, abhor, abominate, despise, regard with disgust, feel disgust for, feel aversion/revulsion to
    rare excoriate, anathematize, vilipend
  • 2archaic no object Curse; swear.

    〈古〉诅咒;咒骂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She execrated, her expression wild and vengeful.

Derivatives

  • execration

  • noun ɛˈksɪkreɪʃ(ə)nˌɛksəˈkreɪʃ(ə)n
    • Almost irrespective of what she does with them, the advantages that have been won from the green-field territories of 200 years ago make America an object of envy but also execration.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus religious and political extremism are laid symbolically side by side for our execration.
      • It received a near universal execration in every newspaper.
      • An exhausted jumble of execrations directed at himself, the hellish place, and everything within it ran through his mind.
      • I was about to yell right back with my own execration when I remembered the light in front of me read ‘NO WALKING’ in bright, glowing, orange letters.
  • execrative

  • adjective ˈɛksɪkrətɪvˈɛksəˌkreɪdɪv
  • execratory

  • adjective
    • An execratory oath is that by which a man, in order to obtain faith in what he says, calls down some evil upon himself or others belonging to him.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Common cursing achieves its desired result in part by breaking that taboo whereas execratory cursing conveys its force through its literal propositions.
      • The new society soon forgot the meaning of the execratory oath that the members were obliged to take at their initiation.
      • They can only use some weak execratory words or phrases, such as "Oh dear", "Oh, God!", "God bless me!", or "Good God!".
      • We had a fellow, on the one hand, with a temperament given to bullying execratory outbursts, who had demonstrated neither an interest in nor knowledge of our Constitution.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin exsecrat- 'cursed', from the verb exsecrari, based on sacrare 'dedicate' (from sacer 'sacred').

  • priest from Old English:

    The Greek presbuteros ‘elder’ was used in the New Testament for ‘elder of the church, priest’ and became presbyter in Latin, which passed into Old English as preost, modern ‘priest’. Presbyter is also the source of presbytery (Late Middle English) and Presbyterian (mid 17th century). The usual Latin word for priest was sacerdos from sacer ‘holy’, which is the source of many words including sacrament (Middle English), sacred (Late Middle English), sacrifice (Middle English), and the opposite execrate (mid 16th century) ‘to curse’. The related sacrilege comes from Latin sacrilegus ‘stealer of holy things’. See also saint

Definition of execrate in US English:

execrate

verbˈɛksəˌkreɪtˈeksəˌkrāt
[with object]
  • 1Feel or express great loathing for.

    憎恶,憎恨;痛斥,痛骂

    they were execrated as dangerous and corrupt

    他们被痛斥为危险的腐败分子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Those who disagreed with his theories were execrated and removed from their posts, sometimes with the help of the NKVD.
    • George is certainly mocked, but he is not execrated as a vile foreigner and un-British despot, as he had been by satirists and cartoonists in the 1760s and 1770s, when he was widely despised.
    • Clemency to the recently execrated terrorists marked the Convention's response to the Vendémiaire crisis, both in the build-up to the insurrection and in its aftermath.
    • Didn't Trotsky execrate those who claimed to believe there was nothing to choose between democracy and fascism?
    • There, Alexander is to be execrated because he conquered foreign peoples and overthrew an ancient empire.
    • I found that I didn't much miss Ireland as such, and in fact in many ways I execrated it.
    • Such memoirs are naturally far removed from the poverty-riven atmosphere and harsh realities say of the recently widely acclaimed, and execrated, Angela's Ashes.
    • But it transformed the professor of comparative literature at Columbia into a very public intellectual, adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers.
    • Just because he remained so steadfast in an execrated cause, entry into the acceptance world seems to have acquired all the more value.
    • The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff.
    • Her immigration policy is supported by most Australians, execrated though it be by our politically correct ABC.
    • That was fortunate for Concord; after March 7, when the great orator endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law, Webster was execrated by many of his one-time worshipers.
    • Those who murdered tourists in Egypt were widely execrated and not just because they threatened to ruin the tourist industry.
    • Unionists would praise the prescience of the men of 1707, Jacobites and nationalists would execrate them, but in itself such a union was probably no more momentous than its architects were moral.
    Synonyms
    revile, denounce, decry, condemn, vilify
    1. 1.1archaic no object Curse; swear.
      〈古〉诅咒;咒骂
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She execrated, her expression wild and vengeful.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin exsecrat- ‘cursed’, from the verb exsecrari, based on sacrare ‘dedicate’ (from sacer ‘sacred’).

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