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v. To feel hostility or animosity toward.

v. To detest.

v. To feel dislike or distaste for: hates washing dishes.

verb-intransitive. To feel hatred.

n. Intense animosity or dislike; hatred.

n. An object of detestation or hatred: My pet hate is tardiness.

v. To dislike intensely; to feel strong hostility towards.

v. To dislike intensely due to envy.

n. An object of hatred.

n. Hatred.

n. Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

v. To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest

v. To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that

v. To love less, relatively.

n. Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.

To regard with a strong and passionate dislike or aversion; regard with extreme ill-will.

In a weakened sense, to dislike; be averse; be unwilling: commonly with an infinitive.

To have little regard for, or less than for some other; despise in comparison with something else regarded as more worthy: a use of the word in Scripture.

Synonyms Hate, Abhor, Detest, Abominate, Loathe. These words express the strongest forms of dislike and aversion of either persons or things. Hate may include the others; it is more permanent and includes more ill-will toward that which is hated. To abhor, literally to start from with horror, is to have all the better feelings excited against that which is abhorred: as, we abhor cruelty. To detest, literally to bear witness against, is to condemn with indignation. Abominate, by derivation and the Biblical use of its congeners, has generally reference to what is offensive to moral and religious sentiment. To loathe is primarily to have great aversion to food, and hence to have like disgust toward that which is offensive to the moral nature or the feelings.

To feel hatred: as, one who neither loves nor hates.

n. An emotion of extreme or passionate dislike or aversion; inveterate ill-will; hatred.

n. Vengeance; punishment.

n. Synonyms Ill-will, Enmity, etc. See animosity. (See also hatred.)

See hight.

v. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

n. the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

"I hate Saint Winifred's, I hate Dr Lane, I hate Robertson, and I _hate, hate, hate_ Paton! "he said, stamping angrily."

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