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Detest taking energy right to appliance (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heater

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'appliance' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'detest taking energy right' is the wordplay.
'detest' becomes 'hate' (synonyms).
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mca).
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'hate' placed around 'e' is 'heate'.
'heate'+'r'='HEATER'

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for heater that I've seen before include "fire" , "Radiator" , "Source of warmth; gun" , "Room warmer" , "Warming device" .)

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