MALEDICTION as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • he suffered the imprecations of the mob
    Hypernyms(s) malediction is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Derived(s)