abominate
verb (used with object)
to regard with intense aversion or loathing; abhor.
abominates
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present tense formof abominate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She knows his tastes, his desires and reprehensions – "beans he abominates" – and follows his progress, his growth in years and learning, with an almost maternal eye.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits.
From Time Magazine Archive
He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rails against the world around him, which he abominates as degraded and contemptible.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know everybody uses scent nowadays, but my mother, whose sense of smell is even more acute than her hearing, abominates scent.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
