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vituperate

verb
/vɪˈtjuːpəɹeɪt/UK/vəˈt(j)upəˌɹeɪt/US/vɪˈtjuːpəɹət/UK/vəˈt(j)upəɹət/US

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ Learned borrowing from Latin vituperātus (“censured; disparaged”), perfect passive participle of vituperō (“to blame, scold, tell off; to censure; to disparage, find fault with”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from vitium (“blemish, defect, flaw, imperfection; crime, misdeed, wrongdoing; fault, error, sin; vice; disease (of plants)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi-tyo- (“apart; wrong”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + parō (“to acquire, get, obtain, procure; to arrange, order; to contrive, design; to furnish, provide; to produce; to decide, resolve”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to get, procure; to produce; to bring forward; to bring forth, carry forth; to go through”)).

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “to get, procure; to produce; to bring forward; to bring forth, carry forth; to go through”
  2. derived from *dwi-✻ — “apart; wrong”
  3. learned borrowing from vituperātus — “censured; disparaged”

Definitions

  1. To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.

    • [M]y beſt Lady, you knovv, and many better men then he have told you, that I am ſo far from vvronging you vvith a falſhood, that I have maintained your honor vvith the hazzard of my life againſt any that ever durſt vituperate you; […]

  2. To attack (someone or something) with abusive language

    To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.

    • […] I learn that I have enemies, who, not content to hate, are sedulous to vituperate me.
    • The yeomen separated the incensed priests, who continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin, which the Prior delivered the more fluently, and the Hermit with the greater vehemence.

  3. To use abusive or harsh words.

    • Governor "Ben" Tillman of South Carolina vituperated back with great fluency and the scene ended by a mutual promise to finish the discussion with more lethal weapons.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism.

      • Faced with a vituperate Serbian nationalism and the despotic actions of Slobodan Milošević, who took power in the late 1980s, Slovenia and Croatia seceded from federal Yugoslavia in June 1991[…].

    2. Which has been abusively or harshly criticized

      Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism.

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Derived

vituperated

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA