HOW TO PRONOUNCE
abhor
/æbˈhɔɹ/
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Keep both the “b” and “h” sounds.
The second syllable takes the main stress. Move from the b at the end of the first syllable into h before the stronger vowel, without adding a third syllable.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The characters abhor needless cruelty.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does abhor mean?
verb
- To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
More meanings (4)
verb
- (obsolete) To fill with horror or disgust.
- (obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
- (obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
- (obsolete) Differ entirely from.
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IPA pronunciation
/æbˈhɔɹ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath.
‘Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should be seen both of mortals and immortals.’
More book examples (3)
Why does the world abhor the glad tidings of the Gospel and the blessings that go with it?
A man may cry out against sin of policy, but he cannot abhor it, but by virtue of a godly antipathy against it.
Away with me, all you whose souls abhor Th’ uncleanly savours of a slaughterhouse; For I am stifled with this smell of sin.