hate
verb (used with object)
to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest.
was hating
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past progressiveof hate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"When you haven't written for a long time, you start being extremely self-critical. So I was hating everything I was coming out with," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
“It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard,” Urie said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023
“I was on tour and I was hating it,” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
They hated from 8 a.m. to midnight and we took it all in, trying to figure out who then was hating on us and how we could overcome it.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
Fact is, he was hating you all the time.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
