to abhor
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7.8
- verb
- /əˈbɔr/
:
detestar
- Whether you abhor the idea or not, we're faced with a new and different future.
- abhor violence
Anything we adore or abhor we attract more of into our life.
- Anything we adore or abhor we attract more of into our life.
- I ate fried chicken for lunch, a food I now abhor for reasons of taste and ethics.
- He, he abhorred people who had a sense of entitlement.
- So I absolutely abhor Valentine's Day.
- You may abhor Fox News as Fox News viewers abhor me.
- There's a wood cricket, an actual cricket that abhors water.
- The wood cricket, literally a wood cricket abhors water.
- We can't persuade them they're they're for things we abhor.
- That's the that's the thing about being human is like, if you take any given circumstance and you say like, what do I abhor?
- Nature abhors a vacuum. And I remember we were
- So in space, unlike who was it that said it nature abhor is a vacuum.
- There's always going to be things that you, I'm not talking about things that you genuinely ethically abhor.
Examples
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Both sides had reason to abhor any experience.
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Many people abhor cruelty towards animals and advocate for their protection.
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We abhor the political murder of any state by another.
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Did I mention how much I abhor fox hunting?
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We both abhor unnecessary violence.
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I abhor how the faithful argue this.
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You may abhor Fox News as Fox News viewers abhor me.
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So I absolutely abhor Valentine's Day.
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Oh, I abhor lawlessness.
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Americans abhor paying taxes and are constitutionally incapable of favoring "big government" in the abstract.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
To feel a very strong dislike for someone or something
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3.2
Strongly dislike and be unable to bear something or someone
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4.9
To strongly dislike and have no respect for someone or something
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5.3
To dislike someone or something very strongly
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3.5
To feel a very strong dislike for someone or something
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9.4
To hate something very strongly
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9.9
To strongly hate and say someone or something is very bad
Antonyms
How Hateful
Surface Forms
Morphology
abhor = ab + horr
Although historically analyzable as ab- + horr-, the segments are not productive or recognizable to most learners ('horr' is not a standalone English word), so the meaning 'detest' cannot be reliably derived from the parts.
Etymology
Abhor comes from Latin parts ab- meaning 'away from' and horrēre meaning 'to shudder', and it shares the same root as horror and horrible. So to abhor something is to 'shudder away' from it, which is why the word means to hate or feel deep disgust.