Abhors
[æb'hɔ:z]
Examples
- He will fail because human nature abhors the vacuum created by the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Descartes and Galileo had brought under criticism the ancient idea t hat nature abhors a vacuum. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nature abhors a mental vacuum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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