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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (loathed; loathing) Etymology: Middle English lothen, from Old English l?thian to dislike, be hateful, from l?th Date: 12th century to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance ; detest Synonyms: see hate • loather noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. regard with disgust; abominate, detest. Derivatives: loather n. loathing n. Etymology: OE lathian f. Gmc, rel. to LOATH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loathe Loathe (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed (l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian to hate. See Loath.] 1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. --Cowley. 2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate. The secret which I loathe. --Waller. She loathes the vital sir. --Dryden. Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loathe Loathe, v. i. To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(loathes, loathing, loathed) If you loathe something or someone, you dislike them very much. The two men loathe each other... She loathed being the child of impoverished labourers. = detest VERB: V n, V -ing

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Feel disgust at, feel nausea at. 2. Abhor, detest, hate, abominate, feel disgust at, shrink from, recoil from.

Moby Thesaurus

abhor, abominate, be hostile to, decline, despise, detest, disapprove of, disfavor, dislike, disrelish, execrate, hate, hold in abomination, mislike, not care for, refuse, reject, repudiate, shrink from, shudder at, spurn, utterly detest