Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imprecate
Participle: imprecated
Gerund: imprecating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | imprecate |
| you | imprecate |
| he;she;it | imprecates |
| we | imprecate |
| you | imprecate |
| they | imprecate |
Perfect
| I | have imprecated |
| you | have imprecated |
| he;she;it | has imprecated |
| we | have imprecated |
| you | have imprecated |
| they | have imprecated |
Past
| I | imprecated |
| you | imprecated |
| he;she;it | imprecated |
| we | imprecated |
| you | imprecated |
| they | imprecated |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprecated |
| you | had imprecated |
| he;she;it | had imprecated |
| we | had imprecated |
| you | had imprecated |
| they | had imprecated |
Future
| I | will imprecate |
| you | will imprecate |
| he;she;it | will imprecate |
| we | will imprecate |
| you | will imprecate |
| they | will imprecate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imprecated |
| you | will have imprecated |
| he;she;it | will have imprecated |
| we | will have imprecated |
| you | will have imprecated |
| they | will have imprecated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imprecate |
| you | imprecate |
| he;she;it | imprecate |
| we | imprecate |
| you | imprecate |
| they | imprecate |
Perfect
| I | have imprecated |
| you | have imprecated |
| he;she;it | have imprecated |
| we | have imprecated |
| you | have imprecated |
| they | have imprecated |
Imperfect
| I | imprecated |
| you | imprecated |
| he;she;it | imprecated |
| we | imprecated |
| you | imprecated |
| they | imprecated |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprecated |
| you | had imprecated |
| he;she;it | had imprecated |
| we | had imprecated |
| you | had imprecated |
| they | had imprecated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imprecate |
| you | would imprecate |
| he;she;it | would imprecate |
| we | would imprecate |
| you | would imprecate |
| they | would imprecate |
Perfect
| I | would have imprecated |
| you | would have imprecated |
| he;she;it | would have imprecated |
| we | would have imprecated |
| you | would have imprecated |
| they | would have imprecated |
Imperative
| you | imprecate |
| we | Let's imprecate |
| you | imprecate |
Verbs conjugated like 'imprecate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'imprecate'
deprecate,
imbricate,
implicate,
impregnate,
improbate,
appreciate,
apricate,
depreciate,
depredate,
depreicate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to swear; to use offensive language
- bad mouth, blaspheme, curse, cuss, execrate, swear, swear like a trooper, vilify
- condemn
- anathematize, blaspheme, damn, excommunicate, execrate, fulminate, curse, maledict
Antonyms
- condemn
- exonerate, acquit, pardon, free
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imprecātus, perfect active participle of imprecor (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“upon”) + precor (“to pray”).
Sample Sentences
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To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...] [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]