Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

    I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.

    verabscheuen, abhorrieren

    ненави́детьnenavídetʹ, пита́ть отвраще́ниеpitátʹ otvraščénije

    морально ненавидітиmoralʹno nenavydity

  2. (transitive)To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.

  3. (impersonal, obsolete, transitive)To fill with horror or disgust.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To protest against; to reject solemnly.

  5. (intransitive, obsolete)To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.

  6. (intransitive, obsolete)Differ entirely from.

More definitions
  • find repugnant

Examples

30 sentences
  1. I abhor violence.

    Я ненавиджу насильство.

    ruЯ ненавижу насилие.

    deIch verabscheue Gewalt.

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  2. We abhor violence.

    Ми ненавидимо насильство.

    deWir verabscheuen Gewalt.

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  3. I abhor spiders.

    deIch verabscheue Spinnen.

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  4. Tom abhors liquorice.

    Том відчуває відразу до локриці.

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  5. No, not loathe, I abhor it.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to regard with horror or detestation:
Русский
By meaning 1
to regard with horror or detestation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to regard with horror or detestation:

Origin

First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer

First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).

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Forms

abhors, abhorring, abhorred, abhorred
Base formabhor · to abhor
3rd person singularabhors
Present participleabhorring
Past simpleabhorred
Past participleabhorred

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyabhor
he, she, itabhors

Past simpleLesson

all personsabhorred

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave abhorred
he, she, ithas abhorred

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill abhor

Synonyms

6 synonyms
to regard as horrifying or detestable:hateA2
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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