execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
execrating
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present participleof execrate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The very men whose own brethren had perished in France were not hearty or unanimous in execrating the deed.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
One—I thought it was Ormsby—was execrating the weather.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
All concurred in execrating the author or authors of this horrid deed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Thus the crowd of notables packed into the anterooms waited at the door, fuming and execrating, yet not departing.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
This is so strictly true, that, when the moment for execution arrived, we heard the inhabitants who had fled to the churches, execrating this destruction.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
