haat, verb

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, ‘to hate’; see haat noun.
1. intransitive. To feel hatred.
1972 Sunday Times 30 Apr. 4Because I am a dominee I am not permitted to haat.
2. transitive. To hate (someone).
1972 Daily Dispatch 12 May 10In 1948 there was the word ‘apartheid’ which caused whites to ‘haat’ Africans.
1974 E. Prov. Herald 1 Nov. 5Nationalists do not haat the Engelse. It is liberal thought that is the target, regardless of language.
To feel hatred.
To hate (someone).
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