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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loathe
verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cordially dislike/loathe etc
▪ It was a happy day when it dawned on me that there was no actual impediment to my cordially disliking both lots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even after years of practice, he still loathed making public speeches.
▪ I really loathe it when people make promises and then don't keep them.
▪ If there's one thing I really loathe, it's long car journeys.
▪ Kemp was loathed by all the other prisoners, who regarded him as a traitor.
▪ Many conservatives loathe the current president.
▪ Mrs Morel loathed her husband when he was drunk and violent.
▪ She loathes spiders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed.
▪ But that distinction is incomprehensible here, where Tupac Amaru is generally loathed for its 12-year campaign of violence.
▪ Fearful of Steve Jobs's loathing of slots, however, they kept things quiet.
▪ From that time on, it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body.
▪ He loathed the repressive State and the system which it supported.
▪ Some of the Girls enjoyed such encounters; others loathed them: They were that cheeky.
▪ They came from his years of moving from home to home in a city he loathed.
▪ They were required to remain together in the public eye, but in reality loathed each other cordially.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loathe

Loathe \Loathe\ (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed (l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian to hate. See Loath.]

  1. To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.

    Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.
    --Cowley.

  2. To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest.

    The secret which I loathe.
    --Waller.

    She loathes the vital sir.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.

Loathe

Loathe \Loathe\, v. i. To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loathe

Old English laðian "to hate, to be disgusted with," from lað "hostile" (see loath). Cognate with Old Saxon lethon, Old Norse leiða. Related: Loathed; loathing.

Wiktionary
loathe

vb. To hate, detest, revile.

WordNet
loathe

v. find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, abominate, execrate]

Usage examples of "loathe".

The troops of ladies were off to bereave themselves of their fashionable imitation old lace adornment, which denounced them in some sort abettors and associates of the sanguinary loathed wretch, Mrs.

She loathed the idea of doing nothing, but she knew without question that if she were to stay on with this investigation, she had to accept that Steven had the right, not to lock Jason into the alembic, but to ask Jason to submit to it.

She had flushed dark crimson, and Pentwere and Assai were again staring at Semerket with loathing.

Out of the mists he thought he glimpsed Astasia, hovering like a Snow Spirit, dark eyes staring down at him in horror and loathing.

I sensed his despairing pessimism, his conviction that the corruption, the inefficiency and bumbledom that pervaded the army and the court would land us like an overripe plum in the lap of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, whom he loathed more than any man on earth.

I have spoken of Esmer, who professes to be the son of Cail and the Dancers of the Sea, and whose dark puissance concerns and dismays even the ur-viles, despite their ancient loathing for the Land.

I sat in the darkness while the unknown thing at my feet ripped the flesh from his half-dead rival in strips, and across the damp night wind came the reek of that abominable feast--the reek of blood and spilt entrails--until I turned away my face in loathing, and was nearly starting to my feet to venture a rush into the forest shadows.

Boba Fett loathed the idiot appendages, with their flexing vacuumresistant scales like rust-pitted armor plate.

And she ate with a candid gusto that pleased Cleggett, who loathed in a woman a finical affectation of indifference to food.

I was delighted to hear that my infamous turnkey was outside, for since his explanation of the iron collar I had looked an him with loathing.

He had been begotten without love, without beauty, tenderness, magic, or any nobleness of spirit, by the idiot, blind hunger of a lust so vile that it knew no loathing for filth, stench, foulness, haggish ugliness, and asked for nothing better than a bag of guts in which to empty out the accumulations of its brutish energies.

It has long been known how men respond to the female unable to resist cock no matter how she fears and loathes it.

The girl giggled at a certain crucial moment and he felt sudden loathing, felt sick and filthy, hating her, hating himself for what he had done.

Just behind the village, and in sight of the van der Heyl house, is a steep hill crowned with a peculiar ring of ancient standing stones which the Iroquois always regarded with fear and loathing.

Lile and the servant with the tray bearing down on her and she groaned aloud, more from exasperation than from the loathing she felt when she laid eyes on Lile once more.