anathemise

Other forms of anathemise

past tense

anathemised·

present participle

anathemising·

third person

anathemises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anathemise

What does anathemise mean?

anathemise means "wish harm upon; invoke evil upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anathemise?

anathemise has 4 syllables: a-na-the-mise. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anathemise?

Close synonyms include curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anathemise a common word?

anathemise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.