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IMPRECATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does imprecate mean?

• IMPRECATE (verb)
The verb IMPRECATE has 2 senses:

1. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
2. utter obscenities or profanities

Familiarity information: IMPRECATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• IMPRECATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

imprecate; damn; beshrew; bedamn; anathemize; anathemise; maledict; curse

Context example:

The bad witch cursed the child

Hypernyms (to "imprecate" is one way 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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Utter obscenities or profanities

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blaspheme; curse; cuss; swear; imprecate

Context example:

The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street

Hypernyms (to "imprecate" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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