imprecate

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

2 He peered down upon the head of the luckless nurse, mutely imprecating.

3 His defiance of Earl Grey was pronounced nearly the same time that he imprecated vengeance on the Sydney democracy.

4 O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path!

5 O thou guileful betrayer! there is a just God, whom thou invokest: yet the thunderbolt descends not; and thou livest to imprecate and deceive!

6 It bewailed the fallen honours of the Abencerrages, and imprecated vengeance on their oppressors.

7 And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.

8 They scolded, railed and imprecated, Abased, defied and execrated; With malediction, ban and curse They simply went from bad to worse; Carramba!

9 I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.

10 Mentally imprecating the cold, he exposed his bare hands and lighted another cigar.

11 Cilla sprang to her, followed by the guide, imprecating bad luck to the slippery stones. 

12 If he fell into a slumber, he beheld in his dreams the shadowy phantoms of the necromantic tower, or the injured Florinda, pale and dishevelled, imprecating the vengeance of Heaven upon his head.

13 V. To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate.

14 He resisted, he prayed, he imprecated; and his father, too, who had no idea of proclaiming the affair in this way, did his utmost to prevail upon them to leave Miss Rety's name unmentioned.

15 He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.

16 He is still living in the palace, but sick in mind through his misfortunes he imprecates the most unhallowed curses on his children, that they may share this house with the sharpened sword.

17 with her dying breath the witch imprecated the villagers for their relentless persecution of her

18 In the station men wept and imprecated in their despair—twice they tried to go to the rescue of the beleaguered men, but could not reach them.

19 Eager, feverish, fierce, recollecting and desiring and imprecating, her dry lips parted for a shriek that the dryer throat had at first no power to utter.

20 He denounced his hearers in the severest language if they failed to obey his injunctions, and imprecated upon them, in that event, all the curses of Heaven.

1 咒

anathema curse beshrew

2 祈求

plea invocation imprecation pray plead ask invoke beseech supplicate

3 咒诅

damnation anathema imprecation tarnation damn darn execrate beshrew

4 咒骂

curse oath anathema invective imprecation malison swear execrate

5 诅咒

ban curse oath hex whammy malison damn swear devote jinx execrate anathematize cuss word eff and blind damnation anathema cuss doggone malediction tarnation bugger bless rat rabbit maledict backward blessing plague damning cursing execration drat sugar blow blame blast beshrew

6 祈祸

imprecation