abideverb
uk/əˈbaɪd/us/əˈbaɪd/can't abide sb/sth
If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much:
I can't abide her.
He couldn't abide laziness.
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Not liking
- abhor
- abominate
- antipathy
- averse
- be no/little love lost between idiom
- hate
- hate sb's guts idiom
- have a problem with sth/sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- have it in for sb idiom
- leave
- not take kindly to sth idiom
- phobic
- problem
- put
- put sb off (sth/sb)
- see sth in sb/sth
- take against sb
- thing
- turn
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abide verb (LIVE)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] old use to live or stay somewhere:
He abided in the wilderness for forty days.
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Living or sleeping somewhere
- domiciled
- dwell
- exist
- habitable
- habitation
- live in
- live in sin idiom
- live out
- live-in
- lodge
- occupancy
- residency
- resident
- residential
- room
- root
- settle
- settle down
- squat
- stay
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Phrasal verb(s)
abide by sth