| 单词 | execration |
| 释义 | execration (once / 3886 pages) 1n 2n The noun execration means an angry denouncement or curse. A protester's furious execration of the police might end up getting her arrested. Use the word execration when you talk about something that's yelled or muttered angrily. When you declare, "May the god Apollo strike you down for saying that!" it's an execration. The person at whom you hurl the execration can also be called an execration, or an object of condemnation. The root word is execrari, which means "to hate or curse" in Latin. WORD FAMILYexecration: execrations+/execrable: execrably/execrate: execrable, execrated, execrates, execrating, execration USAGE EXAMPLES“So long as there are Americans, his memory will be cherished with execration and loathing.” Salon(Sep 23, 2014) Even more telling is the all-purpose execration, common among Shiites at least, “Kharab Saddam!” New York Times(Jul 14, 2014) No body of men ever assembled under such universal execration and odium as did these delegates. Headley, Joel Tyler, The Second War with England, Vol. 2...(2012) 1 n hate coupled with disgust 2Syn|Hyper abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium disgust strong feelings of dislike hate, hatredthe emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action 1n an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group Syn|Hypo|Hyper condemnation, curse anathema a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication imprecation, maledictionthe act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) denouncement, denunciation a public act of denouncing 2n the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated Hyper object the focus of cognitions or feelings |
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