hate
/heɪt/ verb A2- To dislike intensely or greatly. · As a kid, I used to hate to cycle to school every morning.· I hate to say it, but I know we're going to lose.
- To experience a feeling of hatred.
- Used in a phrasal verb: hate on. · I put ranch dressing on pizza. Please don't hate on me.
Plural hate · He/she/it hates · Past hated · Past participle hated · -ing form hating
Verb forms
- Base form
- hate
- He/she/it
- hates
- Past
- hated
- Past participle
- hated
- -ing form
- hating
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
“You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them.”
Hated, as their age increases,
It all comes down to this: That there are some men that have good cause to hate me and would give their last dollar to know that they had got me.
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