loathe · verb
Meanings and examples
To dislike someone or something with great intensity.
She loathed the elaborate office rituals that required everyone to appear enthusiastic about routine announcements.
He had always loathed unnecessary conflict, yet he refused to remain silent about the unfair decision.
I loathe having to explain the same avoidable problem to people who have already raised it several times.
The narrator describes loathing a town that she gradually learns to understand with greater sympathy.
Forms
- loathe base form
- loathes third-person singular present
- loathed past tense; past participle
- loathing present participle