abhor [
əb'hɔ:]
vt. 憎恶, 痛恨, 回避, 拒绝
- Most people abhor cruelty to children.
大多数人痛恨虐待儿童。 - He abhors this banker.
他厌恶这个银行家。 - Most people abhor cruelty to children.
多数人对虐待儿童深恶痛绝。
abhorabhorred, abhorring
Abhor \Ab*hor"\, v. i.
To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be
contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] ``To abhor from
those vices.'' --Udall.
Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.
--Milton.
Abhor \Ab*hor"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abhorred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Abhorring}.] [L. abhorrere; ab + horrere to bristle, shiver,
shudder: cf. F. abhorrer. See {Horrid}.]
1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror
or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to
detest to extremity; to loathe.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is
good. --Rom. xii. 9.
2. To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.]
It doth abhor me now I speak the word. --Shak.
3. (Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.]
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge. --Shak.
Syn: To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See {Hate}.
- The Jordan gathering, originally billed as an extraordinary summit to discuss the gulf crisis, holds much higher risks of dissension of the kind the staid Saudis abhor.
- And that is precisely what critics most abhor.
- They said people have a right to demand that tax dollars not be spent to subsidize art they abhor.
- The Indians do not trust the Sandinistas, and they abhor Marxism.
- Almost everyone agrees that Japanese managements will continue to abhor hostile takeovers and, unlike Westerners, exhibit little desire to buy and then dismember a company.
- "We abhor this senseless act of terror and call again on all sides to the conflict to refrain from inflicting violence on helpless and innocent men, women and children," Hart said.
- Canadians abhor being seen as following in American footsteps, and this time they got out in front by officially tumbling into recession on their own.
- What this indicates, I think, is that most Americans abhor racism and, I would venture, stand ready to move to the next stage of the assault on bigotry and disadvantage.
- There is plenty of justification to abhor the agricultural policies of the authorities, but it was drought, not just the works of man, that produced the desolation in late 1984.
- "We abhor the loss of innocent lives and consider tragic the new wave of diplaced persons," she added.
- To punish the transgressions we most abhor, we have created institutions of long memory, noted determination, and infinite patience.