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hate someone's guts en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To despise; to hate intensely or passionately.
    • When the singer of a band is screaming, only eight minutes in, “I hate your fucking guts” over a sea of boos and chants of another artist’s name, it suggests the gig isn’t going so well. 2017 July 18, Daniel Dylan Wray, “‘It was like going into the trenches’: how Suicide rioted against plastic punk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • She caught him seeing another woman, and now she hates his guts.
    • “I am so, so sorry, Frank. I took a wrong turn in life. I made a mistake walking out, but I’ve had to live with it. I know I let you down, Frank. I bet you hate my guts.” 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

Forms

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hating someone's guts Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hated someone's guts Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hated someone's guts Tense=Past lexicographic
hates someone's guts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic