Usually means: Strongly denounce or curse vehemently.
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  1. execrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. execrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. execrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. execrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. execrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. execrate: Wordnik
  7. execrate: Wiktionary
  8. execrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. execrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. execrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Execrate, execrate: Dictionary.com
  12. Execrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. execrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. execrate: Rhymezone
  15. Execrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. execrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. execrate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. execrate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. execrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. execrate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Execrate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. execrate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. execrate: Legal dictionary

(Note: See execrated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (execrate)

verb:  (transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
verb:  (transitive) To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.

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