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Emotion at seeing hospital tea served? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hate

'emotion' is the definition.
(hate is a kind of emotion)

'at seeing hospital tea served?' is the wordplay.
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'seeing hospital' becomes 'h' (**).
'served?' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'served' mean this).
'tea' with letters rearranged gives 'ate'.
'h' next to 'ate' is 'HATE'.

(Other definitions for hate that I've seen before include "Fury" , "Dislike intensely" , "Abominate" , "Passionately dislike" , "Despise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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