hate [ hayt ]
verb (past hat·ed, past participle hat·ed, present participle
hat·ing, 3rd person present singular hates)
1. transitive verb dislike somebody or something intensely: to
dislike somebody or something intensely, often in a way that evokes
feelings of anger, hostility, or animosity
2. transitive and intransitive verb have strong distaste for: to
have strong distaste or aversion for something, somebody, or
something that has to be done
I hate this show; its so boring.
They hate cleaning the horse stall every day.
I hate to say it, but I know were going to lose.
noun (plural hates)
1. feeling of intense dislike or anger: a feeling of intense
dislike, anger, hostility, or animosity
You could see the hate in his eyes.
2. something hated: something that is hated
[Old English hete (noun) and hatian (verb). Ultimately from
an Indo-European word perhaps meaning strong feeling, which is
also the ancestor of English heinous.]
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an·tag·o·nize (past an·tag·o·nized, past
participle an·tag·o·nized, present participle an·tag·o·niz·ing, 3rd
person present singular an·tag·o·niz·es)
transitive verb
arouse somebodys hostility: to cause a person or animal to be
hostile
[Mid-17th century. From Greek antagonizesthai , literally
to struggle against, from agonizesthai to struggle, from agon
contest (source of English agony).]
