loathe
Use Loathe in a sentence
verb (used with object), loathed, loath·ing.
to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
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loathe (ləʊð) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| (tr) to feel strong hatred or disgust for | |
| [Old English lāthiān, from | |
| 'loather | |
| —n | |
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Loathe
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Word Origin & History
loathe
O.E. laðian "to hate, to be disgusted with," from lað "hostile" (see loath). Cognate with O.S. lethon, O.N. leiða.
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Example sentences
Performance-hungry investors loathe the idea of buying index funds and abandoning all chance of beating the market averages.
Editors usually loathe an out-of-the-blue phone call about a manuscript.
Having fun, mixing cultures, partying till dawn are all wonderful human activities that these dour murderers loathe.
The irony is that development restrictions, which many locals still loathe, help to pull in tourists.
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