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despisedespise /dɪˈspaɪz/ ●○○ verb [transitive not in progressive] ETYMOLOGYdespiseOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French despire, from Latin despicere to look down on VERB TABLEdespise |
Present | I, you, we, they | despise | | he, she, it | despises | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | despised | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have despised | | he, she, it | has despised | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had despised | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will despise | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have despised |
THESAURUSto dislike someone very much and feel angry toward him or her► hateto dislike someone very much and feel angry toward him or her: Jill really hates her stepfather. The two of them hate each other’s guts (=dislike each other very much). ► cannot stand (also cannot bear formal) to dislike someone or something very much: I cannot stand the smell of garlic breath. ► despise to hate someone or something in a very angry way: She despised him for the rumors he had spread about her. ► detest/loathe formal to hate someone or something very much: My mother loathed my boyfriend and tried to break us up. ► abhor formal to hate something because you think it is morally wrong: He abhors violence of any kind. to dislike someone or something very much: I despised him and everything he did.► see thesaurus at hate1 [Origin: 1200–1300 Old French despire, from Latin despicere to look down on] |