loathe
/ˈloʊð/ verb C1- To detest, hate, or revile (someone or something). · I loathe scrubbing toilets.· I absolutely loathe this place.
He/she/it loathes · Past loathed · Past participle loathed · -ing form loathing
Verb forms
- Base form
- loathe
- He/she/it
- loathes
- Past
- loathed
- Past participle
- loathed
- -ing form
- loathing
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I could, however, see that his face was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing.
The tiger, whose nature teaches him to delight in shedding blood, needs but the sense of smell to show him when his prey is within his reach, and by following this instinct he is enabled to measure the leap necessary to permit him to spring on his victim; but man, on the contrary, loathes the idea of blood—it is not alone that the laws of social life inspire him with a shrinking dread of taking life; his natural construction and physiological formation——”
“I have already told you,” answered the abbé, “that I loathe the idea of shedding blood.”
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