0 to dislike someone or something very much: --
I'd hate (= would not like) you to think I didn't appreciate what you'd done.
[ + to infinitive ] I hate (= do not want) to interrupt, but it's time we left.
[ + -ing verb ] I have always hated speaking in public.
I hate it when you do that.
Kelly hates her teacher.
The poll tax was, and is, hated by the majority of people.
Suppose her husband hates the idea, and tries to argue her out of it.
A human individual is a very animated being, with passions, loves, hates and all the rest of it.
The other factor that bedevils any system, and which has become one of my pet hates over the years, is jargon.
They were men who hated tyranny, whether practised at home or abroad.
We should have hated not to have had that delightful piece of obstruction of the channel.
If anyone doubts the need to abolish the poll tax, let me remind them why it is so hated.
Hating was spelt hayting, and perhaps that reflected the ability of the writer to think.
