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/ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous..
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; [...]
Use imprecate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Imprecate means (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous..
Common synonyms include maledict, curse, damn, cuss.
Possible antonyms include bless.
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; [...]
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