Abhor: Definition and part of speech

Abhor

  1. v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; — with
  2. v. t. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
  3. v. t. To fill with horror or disgust.
  4. v. t. To protest against; to reject solemnly.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.