Definition of "hates" []

• Plural form of hate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hate. (verb)

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• ""He's good, oh better than anybody else in the world, I b'lieve, but don't you see, just 'cause _he's_ so good, he hates cheatin 'an' lyin ', just _hates_ 'em; an', oh I _couldn't_ tell him I'd been cheatin 'him all this time, an' he so good to me.""
• "The word hates seems pretty strong to me, yet God uses it to describe how He feels toward this type of person."
• "As the dissent pointed out, what the BSA really hates is teh Gay (and that only in retrospect)."