Both Uses
despise
in
Bridge to Terabithia
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- When you were the only boy smashed between four sisters, and the older two had despised you ever since you stopped letting them dress you up and wheel you around in their rusty old doll carriage, and the littlest one cried if you looked at her cross-eyed, it was nice to have somebody who worshiped you.†
p. 2.9 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Even after they'd given up trying to make Leslie miserable, they'd kept on despising her—as though there was one of them worth the nail on Leslie's little toe.†
p. 185.1despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)