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abbreviate : shorten, curtail, brief, truncate, abridge


abhor verb abhorred, abhorring [transitive not in progressive]
formal to hate a kind of behaviour or way of thinking, especially because you think it is morally wrong: Some genuinely abhorred slavery, others were simply convinced by the economic arguments against it.: hate, detest, loathe verb [transitive not in progressive] to hate someone or something very much: Lucinda loathes spiders. | loathe doing sth: I absolutely loathe travelling.
abide : remain, sojourn, reside, inhabit


abject adjective

1 abject poverty/misery/failure etc the state of being extremely poor, unhappy, unsuccessful etc

2 an abject action or expression shows that you feel very ashamed: an abject apology

abjectly adverb
abjection noun [uncountable] : humiliate /hju:'mIlieIt/ verb [transitive]
to make someone feel ashamed and upset, especially by making them seem stupid or weak: Her boss humiliated her in front of all her colleagues.
humiliated adjective : I've never felt so humiliated in all my life!
contemptible adjective so unacceptable that you have no respect for the person involved: They were portrayed as contemptible cowards.
contemptibly adverb , base, mean