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Abominate vs Execrate - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between abominate and execrate

is that abominate is to feel disgust towards; to abhor; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread while execrate is to feel loathing for; abhor.

As an adjective abominate

is abominable; detested.

abominate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Abominable; detested.
  • Verb

    (abominat)
  • To feel disgust towards; to abhor; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
  • * "Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration." ([http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice Pride and Prejudice])
  • (colloquial) To dislike strongly.
  • Synonyms

    * (to abhor) hate, abhor, loathe, detest * See also

    Derived terms

    * abominator

    References

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    execrate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel loathing for; abhor.
  • To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.
  • (archaic) To invoke a curse.
  • Derived terms

    * execrable * execration * execrative * execratory