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Definitions: Imprecate |
ImprecateVerb1. Wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the child". 2. Utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imprecate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Note: Imprecate \Im"pre*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imprecated; present participle verb or noun Imprecating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ImprecateSynonyms: anathemize (v), bedamn (v), beshrew (v), blaspheme (v), curse (v), cuss (v), damn (v), maledict (v), swear (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bless (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malediction | Verb: curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction. |
Request | Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imprecate |
| English words defined with "imprecate": Accurse ♦ Imprecated, Imprecating ♦ Wish. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imprecate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imprecate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mallkoj (anathematize, ban, call down, curse, damn, darn, dash, execrate, swear, vituperate). (various references) | |
Arabic | لعن (anathematize, ban, curse, damn, execrate, imprecation, revile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кълна (curse, damn, execrate, swear at), моля се на, проклинам (air blast, anathematize, curse, cuss, damn, darn, execrate), призовавам зло, пожелавам зло. (various references) | |
Czech | proklínat (curse, execrate). (various references) | |
German | herabwünschen (to imprecate). (various references) | |
Greek | καταρώμαι (curse, damn), καταριέμαι (curse, execrate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elátkoz (to anathematize, to damn). (various references) | |
Italian | imprecare (curse, damn, swear). (various references) | |
Manx | gwee mollaght er (damn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imprecateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imprecar (ding), que não é prático, maldizer (badmouth, ban, bawl out, curse, cuss, swear). (various references) | |
Romanian | blestema (ban, beshrew, blaspheme, blast, blow, curse, cuss, damn, darn, execrate, swear). (various references) | |
Russian | проклинать (accurse, anathematize, curse, execrate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proklinjati (blast, curse), prizivati (conjure, evoke), moliti se za. (various references) | |
Spanish | imprecar. (various references) | |
Swedish | nedkalla (call down). (various references) | |
Turkish | lanet okumak (curse), beddua etmek (blast, curse). (various references) | |
Ukranian | проклинати (anathematize, ban, curse, damn, darn, detest, execrate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imprecate": imprecated, imprecates. (additional references) | |
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"Imprecate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imprenate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "imprecate" (pronounced 'Im"pre*cate'): Aberuncate, Abjudicate, Affricate, Allocate, Altercate, Amplificate, Appendicate, Apricate, Arsenicate, Authenticate, Averruncate, Avocate, Baccate, Beatificate, Biplicate, Bisaccate, Bisilicate, Bisulcate, Borosilicate, Braccate, Canonicate, Carucate, Cate, Centuplicate, Conculcate, Conduplicate, Conspurcate, Contortuplicate, Contraindicate, Convocate, Coruscate, Crebrisulcate, Decorticate, Demarcate, Dephlogisticcate, Deprecate, Depreicate, Depudicate, Desecate, Desophisticate, Despecificate, Detuncate, Diagnosticate, Dijudicate, Disintricate, Divellicate, Domesticate, Educate, Embrocate, Emendicate, Enecate, Eradicate, Evacate, Evocate, Excarnificate, Excecate, Excorticate, Exiccate, Expiscate, Exsiccate, Exsufflicate, Extricate, Fabricate, Fimbricate, fluosilicate, Forficate, Hereticate, Hydrofluosilicate, hypothecate, implicate, Imprejudicate, Inauspicate, inculcate, indelicate, indicate, Induplicate, Inescate, Infucate, infuscate, Interlucate, Intermicate, Intrinsicate, Inviscate, Invocate, Irradicate, Juncate, lubricate, Magnificate, manducate, Manicate, masticate, medicate, Mendicate, Metasilicate, Miseducate, Missificate, Modificate, Mucate, Multiplicate, Multisulcate, Munificate, Nidificate, Obimbricate, Obtruncate, Opacate, Overdelicate, pacate, Perfricate, Petrificate, Phlogisticate, Policate, Pollicate, Porcate, Prognosticate, Protosilicate, Pullicate, Pumicate, Pyromucate, Quadrisulcate, Rehypothecate, relocate, Remasticate, Republicate, Revendicate, Revindicate, Revivificate, Revocate, Rhetoricate, Saccate, Sanctificate, Scate, Sesquiduplicate, Sesquiplicate, Siccate, Significate, silicate, Specificate, Subaduncate, Subadvocate, Subduplicate, Subindicate, Subsilicate, Subtriplicate, syllabicate, Tagnicate, Trisulcate, Undomesticate, Unimplicate, Uniplicate, Unisilicate, Urticate, vacate, Vesicate, Vindicate, Vitrificate, Vivificate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: impacter. | |
-2 letters: campier, crampit, cremate, emerita, emirate, emptier, meatier, paretic, peatier, picrate, primate, receipt, tempera. | |
-3 letters: amerce, ampere, apiece, armpit, camper, carpet, cerate, cerite, cermet, create, ecarte, emetic, empire, epimer, imaret, impact, impart, metepa, metier, metric, pereia, permit, piecer, pierce, pirate, preact, premie, raceme, recept, recipe, recite, reemit, remate, repeat, retape, reteam, retime, tamper, temper, tierce. | |
-4 letters: aerie, aimer, ameer, amice, apter, areic, arete, armet, atrip, campi, caper, caret, carpi, carte, cater, ceria, citer, cramp, crape, crate, cream, creep, creme, crepe, crept, crime, crimp, cripe, eater, epact, erect, erica, etape, irate, macer, mater, merit, meter, metre, micra, miter, mitre, pacer, pater, peace, peart, perea, peter, piece, pieta, prate, price, prima, prime, ramee, ramet, ramie, react, recap, recta, recti, remap, remet, remit, retem, retia, retie, tamer, taper, tapir, tempi, terai, terce, timer, trace, tramp, triac, trice, tripe. | |
-5 letters: acme, acre, airt, amie, amir, aper, came, camp, cape, care, carp, cart, cate, cepe, cere, cete, cire, cite, cram, crap, emic, emir, emit, epic, etic, item, mace, mair, marc, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, mica, mice, mire, mite, pace, pact, pair, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, peri, perm, pert, pica, pice, pier, pima, pita, pram, prat, pree, prim, race, rami, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, ream, reap, rete, rice, rime, ripe, rite, tace, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, team, tear, teem, temp, tepa, term, tier, time, tire, tram, trap, tree, trim, trip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: imprecated, imprecates, spermaceti. | |
+2 letters: champerties, masterpiece, metanephric, predicament, spermacetis. | |
+3 letters: amperometric, intemperance, intercompare, masterpieces, overemphatic, predicaments, preeclamptic. | |
+4 letters: cephalometric, hypermetrical, intemperances, intercompared, intercompares, interpandemic, petrochemical, spermatogenic. | |
+5 letters: cephalometries, chemotherapies, chemotherapist, computerizable, contemporaries, hypermetabolic, magnetospheric, mercaptopurine, overcomplicate, petrochemicals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 72 65 63 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. .-. . -.-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p r e c a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0072 0065 0063 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982847169678671 |
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