execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
execrated
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past participleof execrate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof execrate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
execrateverb (used with object)to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
Example Sentences
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This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016
He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Historians have treated Richardson very unfairly, and caused his memory to be execrated.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
