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CONTEMN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they contemn ... he / she / it contemns
Past simple: contemned
Past participle: contemned
-ing form: contemning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look down on with disdain
Example:
The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
Synonyms:
contemn; despise; disdain; scorn
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "contemn" is one way to...):
detest; hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "contemn"):
look down on (regard with contempt)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
