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abhor

[ ab-hawr ]

verb (used with object)

abhorred, abhorring.
  1. to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.

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abhor

/ əˈɔː /

verb

  1. tr to detest vehemently; find repugnant; reject
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǰ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ǰ· noun
  • ···ǰ verb (used with object) superabhorred superabhorring
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of abhor1

First recorded before 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin ǰŧ “to shrink back from, shudder at,” equivalent to ab- ab- + ǰŧ “to bristle, tremble”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of abhor1

C15: from Latin ǰŧ to shudder at, shrink from, from ab- away from + ǰŧ to bristle, shudder
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Synonym Study

See hate.
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He openly abhorred same-sex relationships, but never went as far as changing the constitution or the law to make them illegal.

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And Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, testified days later at her Senate confirmation hearing that pardons would be decided “on a case-by-case basis. And I abhor violence to police officers.”

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Republicans abhor compromise with the Democrats, but they will be hard-pressed to muster a majority without them.

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And who could forget “the Pan,” described by the author as “a repulsive and unsatisfactory arrangement that was to be alternately praised … and abhorred” by 18th-century sanitarians?

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Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

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