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Origin of hate
First recorded before 900; Middle English hat(i)en,Old English hatian (verb); cognate with Dutch haten,Old Norse hata,Gothic hatan,German hassen
synonym study for hate
1. Hate, abhor, detest, abominate imply feeling intense dislike or aversion toward something. Hate, the simple and general word, suggests passionate dislike and a feeling of enmity: to hate autocracy. Abhor expresses a deep-rooted horror and a sense of repugnance or complete rejection: to abhor cruelty; Nature abhors a vacuum. Detest implies intense, even vehement, dislike and antipathy, besides a sense of disdain: to detest a combination of ignorance and arrogance. Abominate expresses a strong feeling of disgust and repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky, or the like: to abominate treachery.
OTHER WORDS FROM hate
Other definitions for hate (2 of 2)
hate-
a combining form describing something that one does but professes to dislike and that may indicate conflicting love/hate emotions, as in hate-read; hate-kiss; hate-sex.
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How to use hate in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for hate
hate
/ (heɪt) /
verb
to dislike (something) intensely; detest
(intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)
noun
intense dislike
informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate)
(modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatredhate mail
Derived forms of hate
hateable or hatable, adjectiveWord Origin for hate
Old English hatian; related to Old Norse hata, Old Saxon hatōn, Old High German hazzēn
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Other Idioms and Phrases with hate
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