abhored

English

Verb

abhored

1. Misspelling of abhorred.
   • 1992, Peter Hathaway Capstick, The African Adventurers‎^[1]:

     He didn’t like pig sticking and abhored horses.

   • 2004, Edward P. Jones, Lost in the City‎^[2]:

     Despite something in him that abhored backing down from any position, [...]

   • 2004, Thomas J Cottle, When the Music Stopped [3] [4]

     The evening began with a ritual I abhored.

     [...]

     My parents would have abhored the idea of a dinner guest thanking them by e-mail, a mode of communication, mercifully, neither of them lived long enough to encounter.

Anagrams

• Deborah