detest

  • 21detest — de·test || dɪ test v. hate, strongly dislike, despise …

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  • 22detest — tested …

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  • 23detest — verb dislike intensely. Derivatives detester noun Origin C15: from L. detestari, from de down + testari witness, call upon to witness (from testis a witness ) …

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  • 24detest — v. a. Hate (extremely), abominate, abhor, loathe, execrate, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from …

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  • 25detest — v abhor, loathe, execrate, despise, abominate, hate, feel aversion toward, fee, hostility toward; not be able to bear or abide, shudder at, shrink from, recoil from, blench from; feel repugnance toward, feel disgust toward, feel distaste for;… …

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  • 26detest — de·test …

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  • 27detest — verb Syn: hate, abhor, loathe, regard with disgust, be unable to bear, have an aversion to, find intolerable, disdain, despise Ant: love …

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  • 28detest — [dɪˈtest] verb [T] to hate someone or something …

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  • 29detest — de•test [[t]dɪˈtɛst[/t]] v. t. to feel abhorrence of; hate • Etymology: 1525–35; < MF detester < L dētestārī to call down a curse upon, loathe =dē de +testārī to bear witness; see testate de•test′er, n. syn: See hate …

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  • 30detest — /dəˈtɛst / (say duh test) verb (t) to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely. {French détester, from Latin dētestārī, literally, curse while calling a deity to witness} –detester, noun …

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