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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distasted}; p. pr & vb n. {Distasting}.] 1. Not to have relish or taste for to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak. 2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them --Sir J. Davies. 3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. --Drayton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.] Dangerous conceits are in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distaste \Dis*taste"\, n. 1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. --Bacon. 2. Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. --Bacon. 3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. --Milton. Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: distaste n : a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {antipathy}, {aversion}]
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