malediction

英 [ˌmælɪ'dɪkʃən] 美 [ˌmælə'dɪkʃən]

• n. 诅咒；咒骂；诽谤

英英释义

Noun:

1. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);

   "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Would you turn their distress into a malediction?
   你要借他们的苦难来咒骂他们吗？
2. I heard the people's malediction against him.
   我听到人们对他的咒骂。

经典引文

• Because she knew she would not challenge the law, they ignored her malediction.

  出自： D. Mortman

• A certain liberal white farmer (but the word liberal is a malediction) on Liberation called his workforce to him.

  出自： D. Lessing

近反义词

【近义词】

• curse 诅咒
• spell 拼写
• blight 枯萎病
• charm 魅力
• hex 施法
• imprecation 咒语

【反义词】

• benediction 祝福