execration meaning

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execration (noun): hate coupled with disgust.

execration has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

execration as a noun

  1. hate coupled with disgust

    Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium

    Type of: hate, disgust

    Related forms: execrate

  2. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

    Synonyms: condemnation, curse

    Type of: denunciation

    Kinds: anathema, imprecation

    Related forms: execrate

  3. the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated

    Type of: object

    Related forms: execrate

Scrabble score: 19 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with EX · words ending in ON · 10-letter words

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