hate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To dislike someone or something very strongly.

   I hate getting up early on cold mornings.

2. 2
   noun

   A very strong feeling of dislike.

   He looked at his rival with pure hate.

3. 3
   noun

   Cruel or abusive comments, especially online.

   The singer received a lot of hate in the comments on her video.

Common collocations

• spread hate Verb + noun

From Middle English hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English hete, hæte, heate (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hatred, hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“strong emotion”). Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), Luxembourgish Haass (“hate, hatred”), Vilamovian hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (has, “hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese, Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish…

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