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
All through that evening she had been hating her husband and father, and then suddenly she loved Hugh.
From Poor White by Sherwood Anderson
He had been hating her, furious at the insult she had given his family.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
Someone had taken him in, someone had shown him a kindness, and, even in his semi-stupor, he wondered, because, for an incalculable period, he had been hating and hated.
From Bruce of the Circle A by Harold Titus
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 C. J. Hogarth
