0 present participle of hate
1 to dislike someone or something very much:
Kelly hates her teacher.
I hate it when you do that.
[ + -ing verb ] I have always hated speaking in public.
[ + to infinitive ] I hate (= do not want) to interrupt, but it's time we left.
I'd hate (= would not like) you to think I didn't appreciate what you'd done.
He hates travelling by plane.
I remember how much I hated doing sums when I was at school.
As a child I hated my brother, but now we get on wonderfully.
The assumption that we are better off by not hating nor by seeking revenge is basically true, but it has to be looked at cautiously.
So, too, hating something may enable me to see something wrong with it which in turn leads to a crucial objective moral principle.
While hating their opponents' central machine metaphor, each group at the same time loved their own technological analogy.
We can use hate, like, love and prefer with an -ing form or with a to-infinitive:
