ABHOR (abhorred, abhorring)

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Irregular inflected forms: abhorred    , abhorring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abhor mean? 

• ABHOR (verb)
  The verb ABHOR has 1 sense:

1. find repugnant

  Familiarity information: ABHOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABHOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abhor    ... he / she / it abhors   
Past simple: abhorred   
Past participle: abhorred   
-ing form: abhorring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Find repugnant

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

abhor; abominate; execrate; loathe

Context example:

She abhors cats

Hypernyms (to "abhor" is one way to...):

detest; hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot abhor Sue
They abhor moving
Sam and Sue abhor the movie

Derivation:

abhorrence (hate coupled with disgust)

abhorrent (offensive to the mind)

abhorrer (a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred)

 Context examples 

Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This I would not be prevailed on to accept, abhorring to cover myself with any thing that had been on the back of a Yahoo.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The strength she abhorred attracted her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God's sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In these great wastes of forest, life, which abhors darkness, struggles ever upwards to the light.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry, I think so highly of Fanny Price, that if I could suppose the next Mrs. Crawford would have half the reason which my poor ill-used aunt had to abhor the very name, I would prevent the marriage, if possible; but I know you: I know that a wife you loved would be the happiest of women, and that even when you ceased to love, she would yet find in you the liberality and good-breeding of a gentleman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)