07233996-n 'the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)';
 
Chinese (simplified) 咒语 , 诅咒 , 咒诅
English imprecation 4 ( ⊳ ) , malediction 1 ( ⊳ )
Italian imprecazione , maledizione
Japanese 呪いをかけること
Definitions
English
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
― he suffered the imprecations of the mob
Japanese
悪事を願う（そして通常侮辱する）呪いを祈り求める行為
― 彼は、暴力団のおどしに苦しんだ
Relations
Hypernym: execration
Semantic Field: communicationn
External Links

Langs:
Preferences
(0.02863 seconds)
More detail about the NTUMC+ Open Multilingual Wordnet (0.9)
This project is now integrated in the Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet (0.9)
Maintainer: Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org>