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Imprecate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Imprecate has 2 senses
- imprecate(v = verb.communication) anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" is one way to arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir
- imprecate(v = verb.communication) blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear - utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" is one way to express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Derived form noun imprecation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
Imprecate, v. t. [L. imprecatus, p. p. of imprecari to imprecate; pref. im- in, on + precari to pray. See Pray.].
- To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. [1913 Webster]"Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire." [1913 Webster]
- To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at. [1913 Webster]"In vain we blast the ministers of Fate,
And the forlorn physicians imprecate." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Imprecate, v.tr. (often foll. by upon) invoke, call down (evil).
Derivative
imprecatory adj.
Etymology
L imprecari (as IN-(2), precari pray)
ROGET THESAURUS
Imprecate
Request
VB request, ask, beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask, beg leave, beg a boon, apply to, call to, put to, call upon, call for, make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition, make application, make a requisition, ask trouble, ask one for, claim, offer up prayers, whistle for, beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore, conjure, adjure, obtest, cry to, kneel to, appeal to, invoke, evoke, impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for, cry aloud, cry for help, fall on one's knees, throw oneself at the feet of, come down on one's marrowbones, beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging, mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread, dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door, bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court, seek, bid for, publish the banns.Malediction
VB curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at, curse with bell book and candle, invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of, devote to destruction, execrate, beshrew, scold, anathematize, bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against, threaten, curse and swear, swear, swear like a trooper, fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.
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