Translation of detest – English–Korean dictionary
detest
verb
to hate someone or something
혐오하다
They used to be friends, but now they absolutely detest each other.
(Translation of detest from the Cambridge English–Korean Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of detest
detest
I detest the campaign of arson and anarchy that is going on at present.
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Different from me, who detests them.
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The increasingly apparent linkage between confession and sedition was grist to the mill of those evangelicals who detested the traditional theology of penance.
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He dealt with them as individuals, quite liking some, detesting others.
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If there is one thing detested more than another, it is any form of bureaucracy.
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Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.
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I detest and abhor with all my soul any exploitation of the grievances of soldiers.
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Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement.
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（人、物）を憎む, ひどく嫌（きら）う…
iğrenmek, tiksinmek, nefret etmek…
détester…
detestar…
verafschuwen…
nenávidět, ošklivit si…
afsky…
membenci…
เกลียดมาก…
ghét…
nie cierpieć, nienawidzić…
avsky…
meluat…
verabscheuen…
hate, avsky…
ненавидіти, мати відразу…
detestare…
