Loathe- to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest

verb  \ ˈlōt͟h \

I came across this word in NYTtimes article called: Coffee shops skip WiFi to encourage customers to actually talk. In the sentence that its written in you can easily assume the correct definition of the word which would be “dislike”. However out of curiosity I thought the definition might have been leaning somewhere else. In other words i thought i might also meant “depend”. After looking up the definition, i saw that the word loathe didn’t only mean dislike , but i was a strong dislike that leads to disgust. A useful synonym to remember the definition of this word would be despite.