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abhorring

v.
C1 Advanced UK //ɐbhˈɔːɹɪŋ// ab·hor·ring

v. to feel a very strong dislike for something or someone. You use this when you think something is so bad that it makes you sick.

v. to regard with intense hatred or disgust; to find something utterly unacceptable or offensive.


SIMPLE

The public is abhorring the new law.

CONTEXTUAL

Many people are abhorring the way the company treated its employees during the crisis.

COMPLEX

The philosopher argued that the most abhorring aspect of the regime was not its violence, but its systematic indifference to the suffering of its own citizens.

Synonyms
Origin

From abhor + -ing.

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