loathe
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transitive verb \ˈlōth\loathedloath·ing
Definition of LOATHE
Examples of LOATHE
- They were rivals who truly loathed each other.
- I loathe having to do this.
- It was a habit his wife loathed.
- In fact, he was an energetic walker his whole life, but he loathed fresh-air fiends and he was rather stuck on the idea of being dissolute. —Paul Theroux, New York Times Book Review, 21 Apr. 1991
- How I loathed the look of that type on my pages! Everything I wrote seemed, in that type, arrhythmic, dull, stupid. —Joseph Epstein, The Middle of My Tether,1983
- I loathed the job so much that I did it quickly, urgently, almost violently. —W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe, 1982
- Pushing the table from him while he spoke, as though he loathed the sight of food, he encountered the watch: the hands of which were almost upon noon. —Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
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Origin of LOATHE
Middle English lothen, from Old English lāthian to dislike, be hateful, from lāth
First Known Use: 12th century
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