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Hate Heɪt Campaign Cruel People Noun Bre Comments

Word hate
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / heɪt / NAmE / heɪt /
Example
  • a look of hate
  • a hate campaign (= cruel comments made about somebody over a period of time in order to damage their reputation)
  • hate mail (= letters containing cruel comments)
  • a strange relationship built on love and hate
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hate

(noun)BrE / heɪt / NAmE / heɪt /
  1. a very strong feeling of dislike for somebody
    • synonym hatred
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hatred
    • a look of hate
    • a hate campaign (= cruel comments made about somebody over a period of time in order to damage their reputation)
    • hate mail (= letters containing cruel comments)
    • a strange relationship built on love and hate
    • Her deep hatred of her sister was obvious.
    • a cat’s hatred of water.
    • a look of pure hate
    • people filled with hate.
  2. a person or thing that you hate
    • Plastic flowers have always been a particular hate of mine.
  3. something that you particularly dislike
  4. Extra Examples

    • In her eyes he could see naked hate.
    • Jazz has always been a pet hate of mine.
    • She became a hate figure for politicians on the left.
    • full of hate for the people who had betrayed her
    • victim of a vicious hate campaign
    • He had received racist hate mail.
    • His eyes were flashing with hate and anger.
    • I have so much hate for that man.
    • She gave him a look of real hate.
    • There were allegations of a hate campaign against the councillor.
    • a look of pure hate
    • people filled with hate

    Word Origin

    • Old English hatian (verb), hete (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch haten (verb) and German hassen (verb), Hass ‘hatred’.
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