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(v)
(transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
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(transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
(transitive, colloquial) To dislike strongly.
(transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
(adj)
Disliked; odious; reviled.
(transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
To regard with contempt or scorn.
(transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
(n)
The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
(transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
The lack, absence, or omission of hate; hatelessness; love.
(obsolete, transitive) To make odious or hateful.
(uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
(transitive) To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To forsake; quit; abandon; desert.
(neologism, humorous, rare) To dislike, to resent.
(transitive) To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
To declare to be anathema; to curse and reject.
One rejected by God; a sinful person.
(intransitive) To feel or show antipathy.
(transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
(transitive, obsolete) To scourge severely.
to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter; to consecrate.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
Obsolete spelling of despise. [To regard with contempt or scorn.]
(ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort.
(archaic) To hold in contempt, to despise, to look down on, to scorn.
(archaic) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
(Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anathematize. [(transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.]
(transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
An act of revolting.
(transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
Alternative form of anathemize. [To declare to be anathema; to curse and reject.]
A lack of relish: distaste
(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
To stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.
magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux
(transitive, rare) To render (someone) atheistic.
(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
(transitive) To rended un-hallowed, i.e. to profane; to desecrate.
(transitive) To denounce as harmful.
(transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
To give reluctantly.
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
To cause people to lose respect, reverence or esteem for something or someone.
(transitive) To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
Obsolete spelling of villainize. [(transitive) To represent as a villain.]
(transitive) To make ill.
(transitive, law) To throw stones or other objects at, as punishment, sometimes until death.
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
(transitive) To cause (a person) to be in conflict or opposition with someone or something.
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
(transitive) To cause nausea in.
(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
(transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.
The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
Obsolete form of disdain. [(transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.]
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
To dislike; to hold in low esteem; to look upon without favour or admiration.
(idiomatic) To dislike.
A false god; an idol
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
(transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
(idiomatic, usually followed by at) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt.
Lack of worship or respect; dishonour; failure or refusal to worship; irreverence.
(civil law, transitive) To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
(transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
(transitive) To disapprove of.
Lack of favour; displeasure.
To oppose; to resist
(obsolete, transitive) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
(transitive) To work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).
(ambitransitive) To treat or behave as a foe; be hostile towards.
(uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
(transitive, religion) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
(transitive) To keep down by unjust force.
(transitive) To remove paint from.
(transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
(rare) To engage in a tirade or diatribe full of bitter condemnation.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(transitive) To delete.
(obsolete) To be reluctant; to resist or oppose.
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
(transitive) To make or regard (a person, social group, etc.) as alien or different.