detest
(verb)
verb
1. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
- She detests politicians
Similar word(s): hate
Definition categories: emotion, dislike
Sentences with detest as a verb:
- I detest snakes.
- Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope.
- The heresy of Nestorius […] was detested in the Eastern churches. — Fuller.God hath detested them with his own mouth. — Bale.