verb
Related Words
See hate.
Other Word Forms
- abominator noun
- self-abominating adjective
Etymology
Origin of abominate
First recorded in 1840–50; from Latin abōminātus “loathed,” past participle of abōminārī. See abominable, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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In my capacity as a libertarian pundit, it is my solemn duty to abominate Washington.
From Washington Post
You got me out of this place and here’s your reward; you’re everything we jointly abominate.
From Literature
Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.
From New York Times
In her bestselling essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard gives her readers a depressing history lesson about how classical society abominated the very idea of women speaking in public.
From The Guardian
To compound the irony, the American Social Security system that these 19th-century radicals abominate is modeled on the public pension policy of Wilhelmine Germany’s conservative chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
From Salon
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