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Abhorred vs Abhored - What's the difference?

abhorred | abhored |

As verbs the difference between abhorred and abhored

is that abhorred is past tense of abhor while abhored is misspelling of abhorred.

As an adjective abhorred

is strongly disliked: hated, despised.

abhorred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abhor)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Strongly disliked: hated, despised.
  • (obsolete) Horrified.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    abhored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1992, Peter Hathaway Capstick, The African Adventurers [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312076223&id=AeVbGK95bwIC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&sig=mfJ9xUIgn2-8K-2wCz0IX7PyY10]
    • He didn’t like pig sticking and abhored horses.
  • * 2004, Edward P. Jones, Lost in the City [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN006079528X&id=Xug5lIvE5S0C&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&sig=BwUVcPFd43wWGqEMkRoTAhlnJMo]
    • Despite something in him that abhored backing down from any position, [...]
  • * 2004, Thomas J Cottle, When the Music Stopped [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0791459985&id=6DDAJxOBYboC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&sig=ax9V-nEjU9hYnzM9zanBPZA3JB4
    • 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.