Definitions for abhors

abhors ab·hor

Spelling: [ab-hawr]
IPA: /æbˈhɔr/

Abhors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in abhors (abhors).

Definitions for abhors

verb (used with object)

  1. to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.

Origin of abhors

1400-50; late Middle English Latin abhorrēre to shrink back from, shudder at, equivalent to ab- ab- + horrēre to bristle, tremble

Examples for abhors

Meanwhile, it is well known that Hollande abhors just this sort of spotlight.

Small said the State Department abhors the violence attributed to Boko Haram.

But to think of living with and living for a man one abhors, what a sad thing is that!

And so the critique smacks of the same tribal hypocrisy he abhors.

Thus the Gael abhors the very roads that lead to a plague-struck dwelling.

The science of air crash investigation – and it is a very mature science – abhors mystery.

If he has sometimes worked wrong by us, he has been driven to do that which in his soul he abhors.

Even Cobbett, who abhors the dash, permits it to be used for this purpose.

An enemy to spasms in every form, he abhors the Spasmodic School of Poets.

Bauer is aware that current momentum is pointing towards the one-state solution, an outcome he abhors.

Word Value for abhors
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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