The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ABOMINATE
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More clues leading to the result ABOMINATE
- Hate to ease up, possessing no time?
- Detest what’s in boa meat, cooked
- Can't stand gong in calm houses
- I’m on about creating division in moderate hate
- . Desperate to be a man, I feel hatred
- Despise a failure
- Hate in province with rabble rising in the grip of a troublemaker
- Intensely dislike a dessert pub reportedly had for dinner
- Hate navigating a boat with me in
- Detest weird toe mania going round Belgium
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The straight part
We know that "Hate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hate = abominate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABOMINATE mean?
ABOMINATE verb- To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
- To dislike strongly.
- Abominable; detested.