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Definition

hate, detest, or intensely dislike

I make New Year's resolutions every year and then loathe myself for breaking them.

loathe = hate

loathe = hate

Some people love it. Some people loathe it.
They loathed each other. But he never wanted you dead.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

loathed = detested or intensely disliked

Cray would have been disliked, anyway, because of the uniform he wore, but it was his habit of luring starving young women into his bed for money that made him an object of loathing in the district.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

loathing = disgust or intense dislike

O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

loathe = hate

He is not as tall as my memories, but is still loathsome.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak

loathsome = disgusting or very bad

Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

loathing = disgust or intense dislike

I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
had flung two or three coils of its loathsome body round the Prince's legs.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

loathsome = disgusting

loathe = hate

loathing = disgust or intense dislike

you are living in this filth which you loathe so,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

loathe = hate

This boy, who only just before
Was loathed by men from shore to shore,
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

loathed = intensely disliked

Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

loathe = hate

Think of their loathsome joy, of the delight they would have in dragging you down,
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

loathsome = disgusting or very bad

loathed = detested or intensely disliked

  There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
  Doing more murders in this loathsome world
  Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

loathsome = disgusting

Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

loathed = ugly or detested

  The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

loathsome = bad

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