Execrate Denunciation Damn Curse Anathematize Latin Meaning Verb

Use execrate when you want to stress a denunciation filled with intense loathing, hatred, and passionate fury. 

Curse and damn both suggest angry denunciation by blasphemous oaths. Curse sometimes comes across as a bit more literary than damn. 

Use anathematize to describe a more formal, solemn, impassioned denunciation or condemnation, such as a denunciation by a priest from the pulpit. Anathematize is the verb form of the noun anathema, meaning, “something that is hated.”

Execrate comes from the Latin prefix ex-, meaning “out of, from, away,” and the Latin word sacro, meaning “to devote to, to mark as sacred.” Thus, execrate is literally “to take the sacred away,” or to curse.