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overhating

overhating is the present participle and gerund of overhate.

Meaning of overhate

Verb

overhate (third-person singular simple present overhates, present participle overhating, simple past and past participle overhated)

  1. To hate excessively.
    • From sucklings hath thy honor sprung, Thy force hath flow'd from babies tongue: Whereby thou stopp'st thine en'mies prating Bent to revenge and overhating.1599, Sir Philip Sidney, “Psalm VIII. Domine, Dominus”, in The Sidney Psalms

Questions about overhating

What is overhating the present participle and gerund of?
Overhating is the present participle and gerund of overhate.

Words near overhating in the dictionary

  1. overhastiness
  2. overhasty
  3. overhate
  4. overhated
  5. overhates
  6. overhating
  7. overhatted
  8. overhaughty
  9. overhaul
  10. overhaulable
  11. overhauled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overhating (page history and authors); overhate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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