Definition of "detest"

detest

/dɪˈtɛst/

verb
third-person singular simple present detests, present participle detesting, simple past and past participle detested
1. (transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
  Quotations
  Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
  1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IX”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […]
  Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
  1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 171
2. (transitive, obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
  Quotations
  The heresy of Nestorius […] was detested in the Eastern churches.The spelling has been modernized.
  1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837
  God hath detested them with his own mouth.
  1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches