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Execrate Ek Si Kreyt Verb Detest Denounce Curse.  Latin Execrari

The verb "execrate" means to detest, denounce, or curse. It originates from the Latin word for curse and shares roots with words like 'sacred' and 'saint'.

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Front execrate \ek-si-KREYT\
Back verb
To detest, denounce, or curse. 

[From Latin execrari (to curse), from ex- + sacrare (to consecrate). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sak- (to sanctify), which is also the source of other words such as saint, consecrate, sacred, execrable, and sacrilegious. Earliest documented use: 1561.]

"[Edward Said was] adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers." - The Rootless Cosmopolitan; The Nation (New York); Jul 19, 2004. 

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