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can't stand

Also, can't abide or bear or stomach. Thoroughly dislike; be unable to put up with something or someone. For example, I can't stand the sight of her; she's obnoxious, or I can't bear to leave the country, or I can't stomach a filthy kitchen. The oldest of these synonymous expressions is can't abide, which Shakespeare used in 2 Henry IV (3:2): “She could not abide Master Shallow.” Can't stand dates from the early 1600; can't bear dates from about 1700 and often but not always is used with an infinitive; can't stomach dates from the late 1600s and today is less common than the others.

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despise, scorn, detest, shun, abhor, loathe, abominate, spurn, deprecate, execrate, disdain, disapprove, contemn, nauseate, curse, deride, disfavor, disparage, anathematize

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