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detest

(dɪtest)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense detests, present participle detesting, past tense, past participle detested
verb
If you detest someone or something, you dislike them very much.
My mother detested him. [VERB noun]
Jean detested being photographed. [VERB verb-ing]
Synonyms: hate, loathe, despise, abhor More Synonyms of detest
detestation (diːtesteɪʃən) uncountable noun [oft NOUN of noun]
They were united in their detestation of the government.
Synonyms: hatred, disgust, loathing, hostility More Synonyms of detest

detest in British English

(dɪˈtɛst)
verb
(transitive)
to dislike intensely; loathe
Derived forms
detester (deˈtester)
noun
Word origin
C16: from Latin dētestārī to curse (while invoking a god as witness), from de- + testārī to bear witness, from testis a witness

detest in American English

(diˈtɛst; dɪˈtɛst)
verb transitive
to dislike intensely; hate; abhor
SIMILAR WORDS:  hate
Derived forms
detester (deˈtester)
noun
Word origin
Fr détester < L detestari, to curse by calling the gods to witness, execrate, detest < de-, down + testari, to witness < testis, a witness: see testify

Examples of 'detest' in a sentence
detest

People will detest me for it.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Lots of people detest her work.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
One website claims 3% of people detest him.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She loathed and detested'social science '.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But physicists are a law-abiding bunch, and detest this idea.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I quite detest the man.
Kishlansky, Mark A. (editor) Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginningto 1715 (1995)
He said: 'I detest losing.
The Sun (2016)

In other languages
detest

British English: detest VERB
If you detest someone or something, you dislike them very much.
My mother detested him.
  • American English: detest
  • Brazilian Portuguese: detestar
  • Chinese: 憎恶
  • European Spanish: aborrecer
  • French: détester
  • German: verabscheuen
  • Italian: detestare
  • Japanese: 嫌悪する
  • Korean: 몹시 싫어하다
  • European Portuguese: detestar
  • Latin American Spanish: detestar

Chinese translation of 'detest'

detest

(dɪˈtɛst)

vt

  1. 嫌恶(惡) (xiánwù)
(verb) 
Definition
to dislike intensely
I always detested my science teacher.
Synonyms
hate
Most people hate him, but I don't.
loathe
The two men loathe each other.
despise
How I despised myself for my cowardice.
abhor
He was a man who abhorred violence.
be hostile to
recoil from
be repelled by
have an aversion to
abominate
`I abominate dogma,' he said.
dislike intensely
execrate
feel aversion towards
feel disgust towards
feel hostility towards
feel repugnance towards
Opposites
love
,
relish
,
adore
,
cherish
,
dote on
,
dig (slang)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of abhor
Definition
to detest utterly
He was a man who abhorred violence.
Synonyms
hate,
loathe,
despise,
detest,
shrink from,
shudder at,
recoil from,
be repelled by,
have an aversion to,
abominate,
execrate,
regard with repugnance or horror
in the sense of abominate
Definition
to dislike intensely
`I abominate dogma,' he said.
Synonyms
hate,
dislike,
loathe,
despise,
detest,
abhor,
shudder at,
recoil from,
regard with repugnance,
feel repelled by,
have an aversion to,
execrate,
feel hostile to
in the sense of despise
Definition
to look down on with contempt
How I despised myself for my cowardice.
Synonyms
look down on,
loathe,
scorn,
disdain,
spurn,
undervalue,
deride,
detest,
revile,
abhor,
have a down on (informal),
contemn

Synonyms of 'detest'

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