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a
: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury
c
: a systematic and especially politically exploited expression of hatred
a crime motivated by bigotry and hate
—often used before another nounhate mail
an organization tracking hate groups
see also hate crime
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: an object of hatred
a generation whose finest hate had been big business—F. L. Paxson
hated; hating
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: to feel extreme enmity toward : to regard with active hostility
hates his country's enemies
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: to have a strong aversion to : find very distasteful
hated to have to meet strangers
hate hypocrisy
: to express or feel extreme enmity or active hostility
harsh faces and hating eyes—Katherine A. Porter
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