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
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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."
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