cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abligate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abligates
form: abligating
form: abligated
form: abligated
Etymology: From Latin ab- + ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […]
ref: 1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226:
qualifier: obsolete outside veterinary medicine
glosses: To tie up, especially a body part.
Derived terms: abligation
abligurition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/
ipa: /əˌblɪɡ(j)ʊˈɹɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂epó
Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō, abligurītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō, abliguriō (“to lick away; to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (“away; away from; from”) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”).
Senses: examples: text: So soon as a rogation for a benison by the concionator, transpired, fourchettes, and all implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such abligurition; such lycanthropic edacity, lurcation, ingurgitation and gulosity; such omnivorousness and pantophagy; and such a mutation and avolation of comestibles, had never fallen under my vision in any antecedent part of my sublunary entity. Truly, anamnestic of [Lord] Byron’s “dura illia messorum!”
ref: 1906, J. E. L. Seneker, “Letter V”, in Thomas Stone, editor, Frontier Experience: Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, 102nd anniversary edition, published 2008, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.
ref: 1999, Bonnie Johnson, Wordworks: Exploring Language Play, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Resources, →ISBN, page 103:
text: “Your dad says it’s because I remember things better than other people on account of how I pay very close attention and care very much.” / “Why?” / “Because it is important to know things. For an example, I just recently learned that Roman Emperor Vitellius once ate one thousand oysters in one day, which is a very impressive act of abligurition,” he said, using a word he felt sure Katherine wouldn’t know.
ref: 2006, John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, London: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 46:
text: [W]hen you squander your money on treats and comfort foods, you are engaging in abligurition (excessive spending on food and drink)
ref: 2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, “abligurition”, in Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 3, column 1:
glosses: Prodigal expenditure on food.
abloom
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: From a- (“in”) + bloom (“flower”).
Senses: glosses: In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
abloom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: more abloom
form: most abloom
Etymology: From a- (“in”) + bloom (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: […] on summer nights when the tulips were abloom and the bees buzzing […]
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: [Krazy Kat:] How can you tell spring is here, Offissa Pupp? / [Officer Pupp:] By the flower abloom in yon pot.
ref: 1934 April 17, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Tuesday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Blooming; covered in flowers.
examples: text: For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom, most lovely to see!
ref: 1900 January 23, Gregory Hartswick, “[Untitled]”, in St. Nicholas (magazine), volume 27, number 3, page 274:
text: Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
ref: 1902, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Under the Trees, page 62:
text: He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
ref: 1998, Tom Wolfe, chapter 15, in A Man in Full:
glosses: Having something growing or grown.
examples: text: The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
ref: 1987, Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road, page 70:
text: When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom, her eyes alight with anticipation.
ref: 1997, Ruth Langan, chapter 1, in Jade:
glosses: Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
ablude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: abludes
form: abluding
form: abluded
form: abluded
Etymology: From Latin ablūdō (“differ from”), from ab (“from”) + lūdō (“play; trick”).
Senses: examples: text: Neither doth it much ablude from this, that our English divines at Dort call the decree of God, whereby he hath appointed in and by Christ to save those that repent, believe, and persevere, decretum annunciatum salutis omnibus, etc.
ref: 1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:
glosses: To be unlike; to differ.
abluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lu.ənt/
Forms: form: more abluent
form: most abluent
Etymology: From Latin abluēns, present active participle of abluō (“I wash off or away; cleanse, purify”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lavō (“I wash, cleanse”). See lave.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
abluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lu.ənt/
Forms: form: abluents
Etymology: From Latin abluēns, present active participle of abluō (“I wash off or away; cleanse, purify”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lavō (“I wash, cleanse”). See lave.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A detergent.
ablush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: more ablush
form: most ablush
Etymology: From a- + blush.
Senses: examples: text: She turned ablush when she received the unexpected compliment.
text: His face went ablush after realizing he had spoken out of turn.
text: The girl’s cheeks turned ablush at the attention.
glosses: Blushing; ruddy.
ablush
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: more ablush
form: most ablush
Etymology: From a- + blush.
Senses: glosses: Blushing; ruddy.
ablution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbluː.ʃn̩/
ipa: /əˈblu.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: ablutions
Etymology: From Middle English ablucioun (“cleansing of impurities”), from Old French ablution, and its source, Late Latin ablūtiō (“a washing away”), from abluō (“wash away”), from ab- (“away”) + lavō (“wash”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act of washing something.
Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.
examples: text: Let water be brought to perform my ablutions, and let the pious Fakreddin be called to offer up his prayers with mine.
ref: 1786, William Beckford, Vathek; an Arabian Tale:
glosses: The act of washing something.
The act of washing or cleansing the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
examples: text: He followed the steps of Bella, who soon conducted him to his chamber, and left him to those ablutions which a long ride along a sandy road had rendered particularly necessary.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter II, page 25:
text: She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury. Patiently, without baby-talk, she helps him through his ablutions.
ref: 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 28:
text: There are now indications that it has caused some Americans to become more spartan when it comes to ablutions.
ref: 2021 May 6, Maria Cramer, “See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The act of washing something.
Washing oneself; bathing, cleaning oneself up.
topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
glosses: The act of washing something.
The rinsing of the priest's hand and the sacred vessel following the Communion with, depending on rite, water or a mix of it and wine, which may then be drunk by the priest.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The act of washing something.
wudu, ritual washing of the limbs and head performed immediately before prayer or holding the Quran
examples: text: Cast the ablutions in the main
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution.
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
Derived terms: ablution block
ablutioner
Related terms: abluent
ablutionary
ablutive
ablutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblu.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
Forms: form: more ablutionary
form: most ablutionary
Etymology: From ablution + -ary.
Senses: synonyms: ablutional
ablutive
glosses: Pertaining to ablution.
abluvion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Etymology: From Late Latin abluvio. See abluent.
Senses: examples: text: This interval has been greatly extended towards Hadley since the settlement of this country. Several considerable lots have been washed away from the Hadley shore within sixty or seventy years and tracts equally large have been added to the Hatfield shore. It cannot be wondered at that this process of alluvion and abluvion which has gone on ever since the deluge or perhaps more correctly ever since Connecticut river broke down the ancient mound between Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke should produce even greater changes than these.
ref: 1821, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New York and New England, volume II, page 57:
glosses: That which is washed off.
ably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bli/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bə.li/
Forms: form: more ably
form: most ably
Etymology: From Middle English abeliche, abelyche, abilliche, abliche; equivalent to able + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ably done, handled, planned, said
glosses: In an able manner; with great ability.
abnegate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.nɪ.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ni.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.nɪ.ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: abnegates
form: abnegating
form: abnegated
form: abnegated
Etymology: First attested in 1657.
* Perhaps from Latin abnegō (“to refuse, reject”) from ab (“away from”) + negō (“to deny”),
* Alternatively, perhaps a back-formation from abnegation.
Senses: examples: text: To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
ref: 1898 December 10, “Asbell v. State”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339:
text: All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
ref: 1875 January 23, Brownson's Quarterly Review, page 20:
glosses: To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
glosses: To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
Related terms: abnegation
abnegator
abnegatory
abnegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbnɪˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abnegations
Etymology: First attested before 1398. From Middle English abnegacioun, borrowed from Late Latin abnegātiō, from abnegō (“refuse, deny”), from ab (“off”) + negō (“deny; refuse, say no”). Compare French abnégation.
Senses: examples: text: With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court.
ref: 1558, John Knox, Letter to the Queen Dowager:
text: Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
synonyms: repudiation
self-denial
denial
renunciation
glosses: A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest.
Derived terms: self-abnegation
Related terms: abnegate
abnegator
abnegatory
abnegative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈnɛɡətɪv/
Forms: form: more abnegative
form: most abnegative
Etymology: From Latin abnegativus.
Senses: examples: text: There is rather in their faces a quiet , baffling , negative , and abnegative expression , which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion
ref: 1872, Sara Jane Lippincott, New Life in New Lands:
glosses: Denying; renouncing; negative
abnegator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.nɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈæb.niˌɡeɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: abnegators
Etymology: From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]
ref: 1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion, London: Simon Waterson:
text: The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.
ref: 1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island, London: Constable, page xix:
glosses: One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
abnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.nət/
rhymes: -æbnət
Forms: form: abnets
form: abanet
Etymology: From Hebrew אבנט (avnet, “girdle, belt”).
Senses: glosses: The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
abnormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌnɔɹ.ml̩/
ipa: /əbˈnɔɹ.ml̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: more abnormal
form: most abnormal
form: anormal
form: abnormous
Etymology: From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either (ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”)), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos).
Senses: examples: text: And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
ref: 1899, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 6, in A Duet:
text: Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'
ref: 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
examples: text: Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 23, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:
glosses: Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
Synonyms: sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: aberrant
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: anomalous
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: atypical
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: exceptional
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: extraordinary
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: irregular
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: preternatural
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: strange
sense: not conforming to rule or system, deviating from type
word: unusual
Derived terms: abend
abnormalcy
abnormal hieratic
abnormalise
abnormalism
abnormalist
abnormality
abnormalization
abnormalize
abnormally
abnormalness
abnormal psychology
abnormie
abnormity
haploabnormal
nonabnormal
superabnormal
abnormal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌnɔɹ.ml̩/
ipa: /əbˈnɔɹ.ml̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: abnormals
form: anormal
form: abnormous
Etymology: From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either (ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”)), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos).
Senses: glosses: A person or object that is not normal.
abnormality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbnɔːˈmælɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ət.i/
ipa: /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ɪt.i/
ipa: /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ət.i/
ipa: /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ɪt.i/
Forms: form: abnormalities
Etymology: From abnormal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Taylor said that her fame makes her "sometimes" miss the normality of being able to hang out with friends but that she's had to get used to "the abnormality of my life".
ref: 2015 May 26, “Taylor Swift: Pop stardom is made out to be harder than it is”, in BBC News:
glosses: The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
examples: text: I want a full genetic analysis. We're going to examine any abnormality we find no matter how insignificant it seems.
ref: 1991, Brannon Braga, “Identity Crisis”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden):
text: The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.
ref: 2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, in CNN:
glosses: Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: abnormalcy
raw_tags: of being abnormal
word: anomalousness
word: enormity
word: weirdness
word: strangeness
sense: something abnormal
word: aberrant
word: deviant
word: outlier
word: anomaly
Derived terms: haploabnormality
neuroabnormality
Related terms: abnormalcy
abnormalism
abnormity
abnormally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈnɔɹ.mə.li/
Forms: form: more abnormally
form: most abnormally
Etymology: From abnormal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter 6, in The Time Machine:
text: In mild cases of hypergonadism prior to puberty, the onset of physical and mood changes may not be abnormally early or significant enough to cause any psychological or long-term physical complications.
ref: 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline:
glosses: In an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average.
Synonyms: unusually
extraordinarily
abnormity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈnɔɹ.mɪ.ti/
Forms: form: abnormities
Etymology: From abnorm(al) + -ity, from Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.
Senses: examples: text: Why do critics—some of them—make such short, smart work,—such cheerful, confident despatch, nowadays, of a story with religion in it, as if it were an abnormity,—a thing with sentence of death in itself, like a calf born with two heads,—that needs not their trouble, save to name it as it is?
ref: 1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:
text: Abnormity was detected during the flight of the rocket, which blasted off at 7:23 p.m. Sunday from Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern province of Hainan.
ref: 2017, Xinhua News, China says launch of Long March-5 Y2 "unsuccessful":
glosses: Alternative form of abnormality
glosses: A monstrosity
Synonyms: sense: abnormality—state of being abnormal
word: abnormality
word: weirdness
word: strangeness
sense: abnormality—something that is abnormal
word: aberrant
word: outlier
word: anomaly
abnormous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌnɔɹ.məs/
ipa: /əbˈnɔɹ.məs/
Forms: form: more abnormous
form: most abnormous
Etymology: From Latin abnormis, from ab- + norma (“rule”), + -ous. For more, see normal.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Toby Matthews was a character equally , if not of a more abnormous cast , than his suspected coadjutor
ref: 1777, Edward Ledwich, Antiquitates Sarisburienses: Or, The History and Antiquities of Old and New:
text: No branch , except in the abnormous cases , is given off from the common carotid between its origin and bifurcation
ref: 1840, William Edmonds Horner, A Treatise on Special and General Anatomy - Volume 2:
glosses: Abnormal; irregular; misshapen.
aboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
Senses: examples: text: We all climbed aboard.
text: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
text: Trump said he signed the executive orders while aboard Air Force One on a return flight to Washington from Florida.
ref: 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
glosses: On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
examples: text: to sling a saddle aboard
glosses: On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
examples: text: He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On base.
examples: text: The office manager welcomed him aboard.
glosses: Into a team, group, or company.
examples: text: The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
text: The captain laid his ship aboard the enemy's ship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alongside.
Derived terms: all aboard
fall aboard of
liveaboard
rollaboard
aboard
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
Senses: examples: text: We all went aboard the ship.
text: Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref: 2012 March 23, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
glosses: Onto a horse.
examples: text: Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat:
glosses: Across; athwart; alongside.
Derived terms: english: something done when one is setting the courses of a ship
translation: something done when one is setting the courses of a ship
word: haul the tacks aboard
sense: keep the land aboard
word: to keep the land alongside one's ship
sense: keep the land aboard
word: to hug the shore
sense: lay (a ship) aboard
english: a ship; another ship
translation: a ship; another ship
word: to place close alongside to fight it
abodance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abodances
Etymology: From abode (“omen”) + -ance.
Senses: glosses: An omen or portent.
abode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbəʊd/
ipa: /əˈboʊd/
ipa: [ʔəˈboʊːd̥̚]
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: aboad
form: abood
Etymology: From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
Senses: examples: text: The fine, soundless pulse of this game was in the air for our young woman while they remained in the shop. While they remained? They remained all day; their presence continued and abode with her, was in everything she did till nightfall....
ref: 1898, Henry James, In the Cage:
glosses: simple past and past participle of abide
abode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbəʊd/
ipa: /əˈboʊd/
ipa: [ʔəˈboʊːd̥̚]
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: abodes
form: aboad
form: abood
Etymology: From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
Senses: examples: text: High-thundering Juno's husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes.
ref: 1865, George Chapman, edited by Richard Hooper, The Iliads of Homer, London: J.R. Smith, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: An omen; a foretelling.
Synonyms: word: abode
word: crib
word: digs
word: domicile
word: dwelling
word: flop
word: habitation
word: home
word: homestead
word: pad
word: pied-à-terre
word: place
word: quarters
word: residence
word: woning
Hyponyms: word: apartment
word: bedsit
word: brownstone
word: cell
word: condo
word: condominium
word: dorm
word: dorm room
word: flat
word: loft
word: maisonette
word: penthouse
word: row house
word: studio
word: suite
word: tenement
word: townhouse
word: unit
word: cabin
word: bungalow
word: chalet
word: château
word: cottage
word: farmhouse
word: gatehouse
word: house
word: hovel
word: hut
word: lean-to
word: lodge
word: manse
word: mansion
word: McMansion
word: palace
word: presbytery
word: ranch house
word: shack
word: shanty
word: split-level
word: vicarage
word: villa
word: barracks
word: boarding house
word: bunkhouse
word: dormitory
word: duplex
word: monastery
word: nursing home
word: old-age home
word: prison
word: project
word: rectory
word: residence hall
word: single room occupancy
word: triplex
word: camper
word: camper van
word: caravan
word: double-wide
word: houseboat
word: mobile home
word: motor home
word: sleeping bag
word: sukkah
word: tent
word: trailer
word: adobe
word: bastle
word: blackhouse
word: broch
word: bothy
word: burdei
word: cabana
word: chickee
word: dogtrot
word: dugout
word: grubenhaus
word: gunyah
word: hogan
word: humpy
word: igloo
word: jacal
word: log cabin
word: longhouse
word: palapa
word: pit-house
word: rock shelter
word: Queenslander
word: quinzhee
word: ramada
word: rondavel
word: roundhouse
word: saltbox
word: shieling
word: shotgun
word: soddie
word: tepee
word: tukul
word: wigwam
word: wickiup
word: yaodong
word: yaranga
word: yurt
word: address
word: estate
word: farm
word: hacienda
word: manor
word: ranch
word: slum
Meronyms: word: wall
word: roof
word: door
word: window
Related terms: word: Colonial
word: Federal
word: Georgian
word: Usonian
word: Craftsman
word: Tudor
word: Upright and Wing
word: chez
word: building
abode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbəʊd/
ipa: /əˈboʊd/
ipa: [ʔəˈboʊːd̥̚]
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: abodes
form: aboding
form: aboded
form: aboded
form: aboad
form: abood
Etymology: From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
Senses: examples: text: The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, act 5, scene 6:
glosses: To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
glosses: To be ominous.
Derived terms: abodement
aboding
Related terms: dwelling
abodement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈboʊd.mn̩t/
Forms: form: abodements
Etymology: From abode + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A foreboding; an omen.
aboding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈboʊ.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: abodings
Etymology: From a + bode + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Why suffer you that ill-aboding vermin To breed so near your bosom?
ref: 1625, George Chapman, J. M. R. Margeson, edited by J. M. R. Margeson, The conspiracy and tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Manchester University Press, page 127:
glosses: A foreboding.
aboding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈboʊ.dɪŋ/
Etymology: From a + bode + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abode
abolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-bŏl'ĭsh
ipa: /əˈbɒlɪʃ/
ipa: /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/
ipa: /əˈbɑl.əʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈbɔlɪʃ/
Forms: form: abolishes
form: abolishing
form: abolished
form: abolished
form: abolisht
form: abolisht
Etymology: From late Middle English abolisshen, from Middle French aboliss-, extended stem of abolir, from Latin abolēre (“to retard, check the growth of, (and by extension) destroy, abolish”), and inchoative abolēscere (“to wither, vanish, cease”).
Senses: examples: text: Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
text: The abolition of the death penalty in international law
ref: 2002, William Schabas, The abolition of the death penalty in international law, Cambridge University Press, title:
synonyms: abrogate
annul
cancel
dissolve
nullify
repeal
revoke
do away with
antonyms: establish
found
glosses: To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
examples: text: And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
text: His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
ref: 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint:
glosses: To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
Derived terms: abolishable
abolisher
abolishment
reabolish
unabolish
unabolished
Related terms: sense: Terms derived from Latin “abolēre”
word: abolition
sense: Terms derived from Latin “abolēre”
word: abolitionist
abolishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /əˈbɑl.əʃ.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more abolishable
form: most abolishable
Etymology: From abolish + -able. Compare French abolissable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being abolished.
Related terms: abolished
abolition
abolisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ɚ/
ipa: /əˈbɑl.əʃ.ɚ/
Forms: form: abolishers
Etymology: From abolish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.
ref: 1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16:
text: I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People, nor an Abolisher of innocent Customs, which are their Pleasures and Recreations […]
ref: 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle, Preface, p. x:
text: Alastors, Austenites, A-test
Abolishers—even the straightest
Of issues looks pretty oblique
When a movement turns into a clique,
ref: 1968, Kingsley Amis, “After Goliath”, in A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pages 7-8:
glosses: Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes.
abolishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: abolishments
Etymology: From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir, equivalent to abolish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
abolition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.n̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈbɔlɪʃən/
Forms: form: abolitions
Etymology: First attested in 1529. Either from Middle French abolition, or directly from Latin abolitiō, from aboleō (“destroy”). Compare French abolition. Equivalent to abolish + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: the abolition of debts; the abolition of laws; the abolition of slavery; the abolition of police; the abolition of taxes
text: The campaign for the abolition of slavery changed the course of history.
glosses: The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
glosses: The state of being abolished.
glosses: The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
glosses: The ending of convict transportation.
glosses: An amnesty; a putting out of memory.
Derived terms: abolitional
abolitionary
abolitiondom
abolitionise
abolitionism
abolitionist
abolitionistic
abolitionize
nonabolition
reabolition
abolitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.əˌnɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: abolitionisms
Etymology: From abolition + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law …. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal system, abolitionism originated in campaigns for prisoners' rights and penal reform.
ref: 1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE, page 203
text: Abolitionism is still a powerful philosophy among contemporary feminists, both in the West and in the developing world.
ref: 2006, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
examples: text: ABOLITIONISM
Prisons and jails have been condemned, at least by some, for as long as they have existed.[…] In the United States, the most profound statement of support for abolitionism is the document Instead of Prisons […] Abolitionism has also given emphasis to didferent strategies for change, ranging from simply abolishing prisons to abolishing the entire criminal justice apparatus, […]
ref: 2002, David Levinson, Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, SAGE, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition of prisons.
examples: text: Abolitionism is a term that refers to a particular ideological and legal approach to prostitution. The approach has its roots in 19th-century feminism and is still a potent force […] Thus abolitionism arose as a movement against the state regulation of prostitution. The leader of the abolitionist movement was Josephine Butler, […]
ref: 2006 January 1, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.
glosses: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition (banning) of abortion.
qualifier: abortion
glosses: Support for the abolition of slavery.
Derived terms: anti-abolitionism
Related terms: abolitionist
abolitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.əst/
Forms: form: more abolitionist
form: most abolitionist
Etymology: First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
examples: text: This case, and others, drove and enlarged the existing abolitionist movement in the country, opposed, of course, by the merchants and plantation owners who were making a massive profit from the slaves held in various colonies.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 3:58 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
In favor of the abolition of slavery.
Derived terms: antiabolitionist
abolitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.əst/
Forms: form: abolitionists
Etymology: First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Both feminist and religiously inspired abolitionists have long viewed, and continue to view, male demand for commercial sex as a root cause of prostitution.
ref: 2005, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Children in the Global Sex Trade, Polity, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Furthermore, abolitionists argue that prisons are a form of violence and should be destroyed because they reflect “a social ethos of violence and degradation" [...] Abolitionists argue that prisons should be replaced, or at least decentralized, by democratic community control and community-based treatment that would emphasize "redress" or "restorative justice."
ref: 2007, J. Robert Lilly, Francis T. Cullen, Richard A. Ball, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, SAGE, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
examples: text: Among other slave notabilities of the plantation, was one called by everybody Uncle Isaac Copper. It is seldom that a slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so completely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolitionists make very little of the surname of a negro.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of slavery.
Synonyms: word: woolly-head
english: highly offensive
translation: highly offensive
word: nigger lover
abolitionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.n̩ˌaɪz/
Forms: form: abolitionizes
form: abolitionizing
form: abolitionized
form: abolitionized
form: abolitionise
Etymology: From abolition + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It will abolitionize the world. It will remove all objections but such as spring from negro prejudice.
ref: 1838 June 28, “From the Philanthropist Depository of the Ohio A. S. Society”, in The Emancipator, volume III, number 9, page 36:
text: The public mind has been naturally excited on the position of the American Tract Society, threatened as it has been for months past by a party of revolutionists, determined to expel its Executive Committee, and abolitionize the institution.
ref: 1858 May 13, New York Observer and Chronicle, volume 36, number 19, page 150:
text: The question is, will the people, by a constitutional provision, abolitionize the State and thereby legalize the unconstitutional acts of the Administration for the abolition of slavery?
ref: 1865 August 13, “Letter from Galveston”, in The New-Orleans Times, page 3:
glosses: To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.
aboma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈboʊ.mə/
Forms: form: abomas
Etymology: From Sranan Tongo aboma, from Fanti Akan aboma (“large constricting snake”), perhaps via French aboma.
Senses: glosses: Any of the large South American serpents from the genus Boa or related genera.
abomasum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.oʊˈmeɪ.səm/
Forms: form: abomasa
form: abomasums
form: abomasus
Etymology: From New Latin abomāsum, from ab- (“away from”) + omāsum (“tripe of a bullock”).
Senses: examples: text: The abomasa of sheep grazing on natural pastures in the highveld of Zimbabwe were examined at Mt. Hampden abattoir between October 1985 and September 1986 for H. contortus. Of 304 abomasa, 213 (70%) harboured H. contortus.
ref: 1990, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Animal Disease Occurrence, Volumes 11-14, page 60:
text: 1996 [1991, Ellis Horwood Limited], R. K. Robinson, A. Y. Tamime, Feta & Related Cheeses, Woodhead Publishing Limited, page 54,
Traditionally, coagulation of the milk for Feta cheese manufacture was achieved using rennet produced by cheesemakers themselves from the abomasa of lambs and kids slaughtered before weaning.
text: Digesta, which are compressed inside the omasal body, are forced onwards into the abomasum by a gradually increasing and prolonged contraction of the omasal body (which starts after the first or second contraction of the omasal canal).
ref: 2002, Larry Engelking, Review of Veterinary Physiology, Teton NewMedia, page 328:
text: In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809).
ref: 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:
topics: biology
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
synonyms: rennet stomach
rennet bag
reed tripe
coordinate_terms: omasum
reticulum
rumen
glosses: The fourth digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum;
topics: biology
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
synonyms: rennet stomach
rennet bag
reed tripe
coordinate_terms: omasum
reticulum
rumen
glosses: The fourth digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum;
the lining of said compartment, considered as a foodstuff.
the lining of said compartment, considered as a foodstuff.
Derived terms: abomasal
abomasitis
abominable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩/
ipa: /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɘˈbɔm.ɘ.nɘ.bɯ/
Forms: form: more abominable
form: most abominable
form: abhominable
form: abhominal
Etymology: From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”). Formerly erroneously folk-etymologized as deriving from Latin ab- + homo, literally "away from humankind," and therefore spelled abhominable, abhominal (Hence, Shakespeare puns on this when Hamlet speaks of incompetent actors that "imitate humanity abominably.")
Senses: examples: text: But the feareful, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and ſorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, ſhall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimſtone: which is the ſecond death.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:8, column 1:
text: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.
ref: 1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861^(Offences against the Person Act 1861), page 833:
glosses: Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
glosses: Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
glosses: Very bad or inferior.
examples: text: I want to go faster on my bike than a person with a beard. I want to be the first to own whatever’s the next spiraliser. I want it all: a carapace of insouciance over rock-hard triceps.
This is an abominable thing to want, vain in every sense. But I’m going to set out to do whatever it takes not to decay faster than other people, and report it accurately and fairly.
ref: 2017 July 8, Zoe Williams, “Fit in my 40s: 'The brute fact is, something must be done'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Disagreeable or unpleasant.
Derived terms: abominableness
abominable snowman
abominable snow monster
abominable snowperson
abominably
Related terms: abominate
abomination
abominableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩.nəs/
ipa: /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩.nəs/
Etymology: From abominable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being abominable; odiousness.
abominably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bli/
ipa: /əˈbɑm.nə.bli/
Forms: form: more abominably
form: most abominably
Etymology: From abominable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lit a fire in the dining-room, and the chimney was damp and smoked abominably, so that when he had fed full on tinned meats he was fain to let the fire go out and to sit in his fur-lined overcoat by the becindered grate, now fast growing cold, and smoke pipe after pipe of gloomy reflection.
ref: 1903, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 30, page 304:
glosses: In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
abominate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɒm.ɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɒm.ə.nət/
Forms: form: more abominate
form: most abominate
Etymology: First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.
Senses: glosses: Abominable; detested.
abominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɒm.ɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɒm.ə.nət/
Forms: form: abominates
form: abominating
form: abominated
form: abominated
Etymology: First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.
Senses: examples: text: "Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration."
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
synonyms: abhor
glosses: To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
examples: I absolutely abominate waking up early on weekends.
glosses: To dislike strongly.
Synonyms: sense: to abhor
word: abhor
sense: to abhor
word: loathe
sense: to abhor
word: detest
Derived terms: abominator
Related terms: abomination