abhor UK /əbˈhɔː/US /æbˈhɔɹ/ verb6 •To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams. •To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. •(no longer used) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from. •(no longer used) To protest against; to reject solemnly.I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth. — 1613 •(no longer used) To fill with horror or disgust.But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me. — 1603 •(no longer used) Differ entirely from. formsabhorred · abhorredst · abhorring · abhorreth · abhors · abhorrest