imprecate

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/

Verb

imprecate (imprecates, present participle imprecating; past and past participle imprecated)

1. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
2. (transitive) To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 119

     To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]

Related terms

• imprecation

Translations

• Russian: проклина́ть
• Spanish: imprecar

Translations

• Russian: проклина́ть
• Spanish: imprecar

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