Past tense of abhor
regular verb
The past tense of abhor is abhorred. The past participle is also abhorred.
Forms of abhor
| Base form (V1) | abhor /əbˈhɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | abhorred /əbˈhɔːd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | abhorred /əbˈhɔːd/ |
| Present participle | abhorring /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | abhors /æbˈhoɹz/ |
Abhorred in a sentence
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:abhorred.From the entry abhorred
- And, also, they could stuff their real tennis and pall-mall as I abhorred them both!2020, John Isaacs, My Football Diary - by William Shakespeare. From the entry namby
- He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred.1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42. From the entry yab
- ERA meant the equality of women, to those who urgently sought it, to those who abhorred it, and to those who found it obvious if not entirely redundant.1983, Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Excerpts from MacKinnon/Schlafly Debate”, in Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, volume 1, number 2. From the entry era
- I had fled people, I had come to the wilderness in preference to any further effort to establish an amicable destiny in a society that abhorred me.1925, Leonard Cline, God Head, page 25. From the entry phobanthropy
Meaning of abhor
- verb To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- verb To fill with horror or disgust.
- verb To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
Questions about the past tense of abhor
- What is the past tense of abhor?
- The past tense of abhor is abhorred.
- What is the past participle of abhor?
- The past participle of abhor is abhorred.
- Is abhor a regular or irregular verb?
- Abhor is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: abhor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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