MEANING
To regard something with deep disgust, loathing, or hatred.
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Words that belong together
- abominate cruelty
- abominate a practice
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She abominated the practice but understood how it had been concealed.
He abominated the odor because it recalled the locked room.
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Word forms
- Base
- abominate
- Past tense
- abominated
- Past participle
- abominated
- Present participle
- abominating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- abominate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are abominating
- Present perfect
- have/has abominated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been abominating
- Past
- abominated
- Past continuous
- was/were abominating
- Past perfect
- had abominated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been abominating
- Future
- will abominate
- Future continuous
- will be abominating
- Future perfect
- will have abominated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been abominating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: abominate; abominates; abominated; abominated; abominating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: abominates.
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