| 单词 | imprecate |
| 释义 | imprecate (once / 2679 pages) v To imprecate is to deliver a curse or verbally attack someone. You might imprecate a curse against a rival sports team, or even against a sibling. The verb imprecate is an old-fashioned way to say "curse," meaning either to wish harm or evil on someone, or simply to swear at them. If you're mad enough to say, "Curse you!" or "May your bed be full of fleas!" when your brother annoys you, you imprecate him. The Latin root is imprecationem, "an invoking of evil," from imprecari, "invoke or call down upon." WORD FAMILYimprecate: imprecated, imprecates, imprecating, imprecation+/imprecation: imprecations USAGE EXAMPLESTo devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) It was then that I remembered the vengeance which I had imprecated upon her head; and it was she who was avenged! Brunton, Mary, Discipline(2012) Those of you who were with Cambyses when sick remember what he imprecated on the Persians if they did not seek to regain the dominion. Duncker, Max, The History of Antiquity—Vol. VI. (...(2011) 1v wish harm upon; invoke evil upon Syn|Ant|Hyper anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict bless give a benediction to arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic 2v utter obscenities or profanities Syn|Hyper blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear blaspheme speak of in an irreverent or impious manner express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise |
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