abominate
verb (used with object)
to regard with intense aversion or loathing; abhor.
abominated
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past participleof abominate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof abominate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
abominateverb (used with object)to regard with intense aversion or loathing; abhor.
Example Sentences
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This Dinocrates had been my brother in the flesh, seven years old, who being diseased with ulcers of the face had come to a horrible death, so that his death was abominated of all men.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
An early supporter of Nelson Mandela – he sent him books in prison – Astor abominated apartheid, supported the Nagas of north-east India, and famously denounced Anthony Eden over Suez in 1956.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
Even so, he seems genuinely to have abominated slavery, and he expressed terrible premonitions: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
From Time Magazine Archive
Few knew of his misfortune, and none abominated it more than himself.
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell
