detest
11detest — [16] Latin dētestārī, source of detest, meant ‘denounce’. It was a compound verb formed from the pejorative prefix dē and testārī ‘bear witness’. This in turn was a derivative of testis ‘witness’, source of English testify, testimony, and… …
12detest — [[t]dɪte̱st[/t]] detests, detesting, detested VERB If you detest someone or something, you dislike them very much. [V n/ ing] My mother detested him... [V n/ ing] Jean detested being photographed. Syn: loathe Derived words: detestation …
13detest — verb (transitive not in progressive) to hate something or someone very much: I detest computers. detestation / di:te steISFn/ noun (U) …
14detest — verb the only vegetable I truly detest is turnip Syn: abhor, hate, loathe, despise, shrink from, be unable to bear, find intolerable, dislike, disdain, have an aversion to; formal abominate See note at despise Ant: love …
15detest — [16] Latin dētestārī, source of detest, meant ‘denounce’. It was a compound verb formed from the pejorative prefix dē and testārī ‘bear witness’. This in turn was a derivative of testis ‘witness’, source of English testify, testimony, and… …
16detest — transitive verb Etymology: Middle French detester or Latin detestari; Middle French detester, from Latin detestari, literally, to curse while calling a deity to witness, from de + testari to call to witness more at testament Date: circa 1535 1.… …
17detest — detester, n. /di test /, v.t. to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely. [1525 35; < MF detester < L detestari to call down a curse upon, loathe, equiv. to de DE + testari to bear witness; see TESTATE] Syn. abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate …
18detest — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. hate, abhor, despise, abominate. Ant., love. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hate, abhor, loathe, despise; see hate 1 . See Synonym Study at hate . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. hate, loathe, despise,… …
19detest — de|test [dıˈtest] v [T not in progressive] formal [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: detestari, from testis one who gives information against someone ] to hate something or someone very much ▪ Liz and Mo detested each other. >detestation… …
20detest — de|test [ dı test ] verb transitive to hate someone or something: LOATHE …
