hate

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noun

1 strong feeling of dislike

ADJECTIVE

▪ absolute, pure

▪

In her eyes he could see naked hate.

VERB + HATE

▪ be filled with, be full of, burn with

▪

He burned with hate for everyone and everything.

HATE + NOUN

▪ campaign, figure (esp. BrE), mail

▪

victim of a vicious hate campaign

▪

She became a hate figure for politicians on the left.

▪ crime, speech

PREPOSITION

▪ hate for

▪

full of hate for the people who had betrayed her

2 sb/sth you hate

ADJECTIVE

▪ pet (BrE)

▪

Jazz has always been a pet hate of mine.

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verb

ADVERB

▪ particularly, really

▪ absolutely

▪

I absolutely hate cooking.

▪ almost

▪

For a moment she almost hated him.

▪ just

▪

Don't you just hate people who are always right?

▪ always

▪

I always hated school.

▪ still

VERB + HATE

▪ begin to, come to, grow to

▪

He came to hate the town, with its narrow prejudices.

▪ love to

▪

the media baron all the liberals love to hate

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

He hated me for standing up to him.

PHRASES

▪ hate it when

▪

I hate it when you lose your temper like that.

▪ hate to say, see, think, etc.

▪

I'd hate to say how many hours I've spent trying to fix my computer.

Hate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑fact, ↑feeling, ↑nickname, ↑violence