ABOMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abominate mean? 

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

1. find repugnant

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOMINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abominate    ... he / she / it abominates   
Past simple: abominated   
Past participle: abominated   
-ing form: abominating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Find repugnant

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

abhor; abominate; execrate; loathe

Context example:

She abhors cats

Hypernyms (to "abominate" 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 abominate Sue
They abominate moving
Sam and Sue abominate the movie

Derivation:

abominable (unequivocally detestable)

abomination (an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence)

abomination (hate coupled with disgust)

abomination (a person who is loathsome or disgusting)

abominator (one who hates or loathes)

 Context examples 

He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister.

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

Oh! dear Mrs Croft, cried Mrs Musgrove, unable to let her finish her speech, there is nothing I so abominate for young people as a long engagement.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few, but he abominates them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)