abhorred

American  

[ab-hawrd] / æbˈhɔrd /

adjective

1. regarded with extreme disgust or hatred; detested; loathed.

   Toothache is one of the most abhorred forms of bodily pain.

   After the first free election and the departure of the abhorred dictator, a ray of hope began to shine.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of abhor.

Other Word Forms

• unabhorred
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of abhorred

First recorded in 1530–40; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

Be thou, my lord, the noble son, And the vile deed my sire has done, Abhorred by all the virtuous, ne'er Resent, lest thou the guilt too share.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

O dark cloud, descendingI 1 Unutterably on me! invincible, Abhorred, borne onward by too sure a wind.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Abhorred and circumvented as he was, old master, having the power, very easily took revenge.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

Abhorred and intolerable certainty succeeded to the doubts which had haunted my mind.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

"Adams Memorial," by Saint-Gaudens A Dog's Tale Abhorred extortion and visible waste.

From Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of Paine's Writings on Mark Twain by Widger, David

Related Words

• appalled
• outraged
• queasy
• tired
• unhappy
• weary