| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ex·e·crate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k s -kr t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ex·e·crat·ed, ex·e·crat·ing, ex·e·crates
1. To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce. 2. To feel loathing for; abhor. 3. Archaic To invoke a curse on. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin execrr , execrt- : ex-, ex- + sacrre, to consecrate (from sacer, sacred; see sak- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | exe·crative, exe·cra·tory (-kr -tôr , -t r) —ADJECTIVE
exe·crator —NOUN
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