Abide vs Detest - What's the difference?
abide | detest |
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*:Abide you here with the asse.
(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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English irregular verbs
To dislike intensely; to loathe.
(obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
As verbs the difference between abide and detest
is that abide is while detest is to dislike intensely; to loathe.abide
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Verb
Usage notes
* (bear patiently) Used in the negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.See also
* dwell * live * reside * stayReferences
detest
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Verb
(en verb)- I detest snakes.
- Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope.
- The heresy of Nestorius was detested in the Eastern churches. — Fuller.
- God hath detested them with his own mouth. — Bale.