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Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon;
- Example: "The bad witch cursed the child"
[syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict]
2. utter obscenities or profanities;
- Example: "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
[syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Imprecate \Im"pre*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imprecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprecating.] [L. imprecatus, p. p. of imprecari to imprecate; pref. im- in, on + precari to pray. See Pray.] 1. To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. [1913 Webster] Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire. --Mickle. [1913 Webster] 2. To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at. [1913 Webster] In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. --Rochester. [1913 Webster]
