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单词 abhor
释义
abhor
verb[Tnot continuous]
formal
uk
/əˈbhɔːr//əˈbɔːr/us
/æbˈhɔːr/
-rr-
tohatea way ofbehavingorthinking, often because youthinkit is notmoral:
憎恶；憎恨；厌恶
I abhor allformsofracism.我对任何形式的种族主义都深恶痛绝。
Synonyms
abominateformal
detest
loathe
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to hate someone or something
  • hateI hate camping.
  • detestI detest any kind of cruelty.
  • loathe"Do you like cabbage?" "No, I loathe it."
  • despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not liking
  • abide
  • abominate
  • anti-American
  • anti-British
  • anti-Catholic
  • cup
  • cut
  • despise
  • detest
  • disdain
  • disdainful
  • disdainfully
  • mind
  • not besomeone'scup of teaidiom
  • not go much onsomethingidiom
  • not have a civil word to say aboutsomeoneidiom
  • not know whatsomeonesees insomeone/somethingidiom
  • not take kindly tosomethingidiom
  • stand
  • thing
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(Definition ofabhorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

abhor| American Dictionary

abhor
verb[T]
us
/æbˈhɔr,əb-/
-rr-
tohatesomething or someone:
Hisopponentabhors thedeathpenalty.

abhorrence

noun[U]us
/æbˈhɔr·əns,əb-,-ˈhɑr-/
She has an abhorrence ofviolence.

abhorrent

adjectiveus
/æbˈhɔr·ənt,-ˈhɑr-/
Hisattitudeofsuperiorityis abhorrent.
(Definition ofabhorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabhor

abhor
Indeed, they argue that this preoccupation leads us, as gerontologists, to perpetuate the very conditions that weabhor.
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Local magistrates, for their part, abhorred the litigious society.
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Both writers' works contain expositions of the theory of justification by faith alone, a doctrine the king abhorred.
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It seems to be a topic mostabhor, yet many obsess over.
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Theyabhorthe perfidious means by which they have been deprived of the humanist decalogue.
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But in shunning any attempt to give it correspondence to contemporary economic circumstances he left a vacuum which many historians have naturally abhorred.
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It is a moral tale with a moral lesson that young female readers, one might imagine, wouldabhor.
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She abhorred games of all kinds, suggesting that they appeal to the indolent without the imagination to invent their own learning and growing activities.
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In domestic politics, theyabhorthe exercise of real leadership because it disturbs the comfortable web of vested interests.
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Ordinarily, high churchmen abhorred the idea of baptism by total immersion.
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Malay politics seems toabhorthe vacuum of authoritarian leadership.
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It was abhorred because it was perceived, wrongly or rightly, as an unjust tax levied upon the politically unrepresented producers of colonial wealth.
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He therefore abhors the word "axiom," which in its usual usage evokes the idea of definitive truth.
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He welcomes the elementary, but abhors the banal.
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The depersonalizaing effects of the process of dying can be such that people simplyabhorto exist in that way.
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