verb
abhor
ub-HOR/əbˈhɔːr/
To hate intensely.
The man's recoil shows how strongly he abhors the pollution in the stream.
Etymology
The pieces evoke shuddering and shrinking away from something. This bodily recoil expresses the powerful aversion behind the English meaning: not merely disliking something, but detesting it intensely.
In context
all good men, all lovers of peace and of justice, will abhor and reject the thought of overturning the present constitution of things
More examples
- They abhorred the corruption in the administration.
- I abhor deliberate humiliation.
- He was raised to abhor racial prejudice.
Forms
abhor · abhors · abhorred · abhorring
abhorrence noun — intense hatred or revulsion