Definitions for loathe
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate(verb)

   find repugnant

   "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

Wiktionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. loathe(Verb)

   To hate, detest, revile.

   Etymology: From lothe, from laþian. Cognate with Old Norse leiða ( > Danish lede, Icelandic leiðast ) (all reflexive), German leiden.

Webster Dictionary(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Loathe(verb)

   to feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for

2. Loathe(verb)

   to dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate

3. Loathe(verb)

   to feel disgust or nausea

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Loathe

   lōth, v.t. to dislike greatly, to feel disgust at.—adj. Loath′ful, full of loathing, hate, or abhorrence: exciting loathing or disgust.—n. Loath′ing, extreme hate or disgust: abhorrence.—adj. hating.—adv. Loath′ingly.—adjs. Loath′ly, Loath′y (obs.), loathsome; Loath′some, exciting loathing or abhorrence: detestable.—adv. Loath′somely.—n. Loath′someness. [A.S. láðian—láð; cf. loath.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of loathe in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of loathe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of loathe in a Sentence

1. Franoise Mallet-Joris:

   Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

2. James Thurber:

   I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

3. Cleopatra Cowley:

   I loathe Michaeil Ward and his very existence because every breath Michaeil Ward gets to take is one breath more than my 15-year-old daughter was allowed to breathe, hadiya Pendleton is serving a death sentence handed down by Michaeil Ward and the family is doing life as a result of her death.

4. Arthur Alan Wolk:

   The only way to really improve it…is to have competition, the only other thing that works, I’m loathe to say, is for the regulatory environment to tighten up the service regulations that apply to the airlines.

5. Perry Brass:

   Try to dwell on the people you’d like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

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