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Loathe   /loʊð/   Listen
verb
Loathe  v. t.  (past & past part. loathed; pres. part. loathing)  
1.
To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. "Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread."
2.
To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest. "The secret which I loathe." "She loathes the vital sir."
Synonyms: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.


Loathe  v. i.  To feel disgust or nausea. (Obs.)





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"Loathe" Quotes from Famous Books



... could only swear my life away as they have done to others in many parallel cases. They could only destroy me; and Ivan, sometimes, upon my bended knees I pray for death. What matter would it be to me how death might come, so long as I am prepared to welcome it? I hate and loathe myself when I stop to consider all the contemptible acts I am compelled to perform, when I pause to realize the utter prostitution of self-respect I am forced to undergo, in order to carry on the plots of our 'good friends,' as you call them. Good friends, ...
— Princess Zara • Ross Beeckman
... some time to forget it," the Colonel said. "I can forgive almost anything except deception. And that I loathe." ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... yarn, I suppose," answered Watson. "Fleming County, Kentucky—anxious to join the Confederate forces—et cetera. Bah! I loathe all this subterfuge and deceit. I wish I were back fighting the enemy in ...
— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins
... he isn't really bad; Myself, I rather like the lad. (And loathe that Bombardier!) Beneath his buttons—none too bright— May lurk the spirit of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 29, 1917 • Various
... beauty-famed I fled, escaping from my father's wrath 555 Amyntor, son of Ormenus, who loved A beauteous concubine, and for her sake Despised his wife and persecuted me. My mother suppliant at my knees, with prayer Perpetual importuned me to embrace 560 The damsel first, that she might loathe my sire. I did so; and my father soon possess'd With hot suspicion of the fact, let loose A storm of imprecation, in his rage Invoking all the Furies to forbid 565 That ever son of mine should press his knees. Tartarian Jove[14] and dread Persephone Fulfill'd his curses; with my pointed spear ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer


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