hate
verb (used with object)
to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest.
had been hating
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past perfect progressiveof hate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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I would have wasted myself away if I had been hating all these years.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been hating her, furious at the insult she had given his family.
From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto
And for his sake she had been hating children!
From The Christmas Angel by Brown, Abbie Farwell
I felt conscience-stricken, and could not understand how, only a minute ago, I had been hating Karl, and thinking his dressing-gown and cap and tassel disgusting.
From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.
Did he recollect that only a few hours before he had been hating Aunt Amy with a fine frenzy of hatred?
From Jeremy by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
