MEANING
1. To express intense hatred or condemnation toward someone or something.
2. To utter a curse or imprecation against someone or something.
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Words that belong together
- execrate a tyrant
- execrate an act
On the page
The narrator execrated the cruelty without sparing its witnesses.
She execrated the act while refusing to repeat the rumor about its cause.
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Word forms
- Base
- execrate
- Past tense
- execrated
- Past participle
- execrated
- Present participle
- execrating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- execrate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are execrating
- Present perfect
- have/has execrated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been execrating
- Past
- execrated
- Past continuous
- was/were execrating
- Past perfect
- had execrated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been execrating
- Future
- will execrate
- Future continuous
- will be execrating
- Future perfect
- will have execrated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been execrating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: execrate; execrates; execrated; execrated; execrating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: execrates.
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