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imprecate

/im-pri-keyt/US // ˈɪm prɪˌkeɪt //UK // (ˈɪmprɪˌkeɪt) //

准确无误的,准确无误的说是,准确无误的说

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·pre·cat·ed, im·pre·cat·ing.

    • : to invoke or call down, as upon a person.

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Examples

  • But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

  • He ceased to imprecate only when, by repetition, his oaths became too inexpressive to be worth while.

  • Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause.

  • Bowing my head to think—to pray—to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.

  • At a very early period, he, in drinking, would imprecate vengeance upon "the head of him who ever lived to wear a halter."