abhor
b'\\n \\n \\n Merriam-Webster\'s Word of the Day for July 1, 2024 is:\\n \\n \\n abhor • \\\\ub-HOR\\\\ • verb Abhor is synonymous with loathe. Something or someone who is abhorred is regarded with extreme disgust or hatred. // Mariah is an animal rights activist who abhors any and all mistreatment of animals.
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"While Anne\'s embarrassed by the slightest bit of conflict, disruptive Jenny abhors obedience\\u2014she\'s a roll of Mentos dropped into her sister\'s placid Diet Coke life." \\u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
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Those who shudder to think about having to clean dirty carpets might fairly be said to abhor a vacuum. Nature is often said to abhor a vacuum as well, albeit a different one\\u2014according to plenists, there is always some matter or material floating around ready to fill a void. Interior designers afflicted with horror vacui abhor vacuums as well, being unable to tolerate empty spaces in artistic designs. In each of these cases, abhor implies strong feelings of disgust and aversion, a degree of distaste embedded in the word\'s history: the word\'s Latin source, the verb abhorr\\u0113re, comes from the prefix ab- ("from, away") and the verb horr\\u0113re ("to bristle, shiver, or shudder"). Horr\\u0113re is also the source of the English words horror, horrify, and horrible.
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