degust
degust verb: to taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour.
Verb
degust (third-person singular simple present degusts, present participle degusting, simple past and past participle degusted)
- To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour
- If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is...1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, →ISBN, page 35f.
- The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish.1892, M. Betham-Edwards, A north-country comedy, J.B. Lippincott, page 17
degust meaning in Urdu
degust in Urdu
- چکھنا, مزہ لوٹنا
Examples of degust in a sentence
- But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning...1895, O. Crawfurd, Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, volume 1, Chapman & Hall, page 269:
- He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older1898, L. Menand, Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, page 78:
- as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted.1904, F.T. Bullen, Creatures of the Sea: Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes, Religious Tract Society, page 409:
- Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake.1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
Forms of degust
| third-person singular present | degusts |
|---|---|
| present participle | degusting |
| past participle | degusted |
| past | degusted |
Origin of degust
From French déguster. Doublet of degustate.
Questions about degust
- What does degust mean?
- Degust means to taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour.
- What is degust in Urdu?
- Degust in Urdu is چکھنا, مزہ لوٹنا. See Degust meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use degust in a sentence?
- But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning...
- What part of speech is degust?
- Degust is a verb.
- What is the past tense of degust?
- The past tense of degust is degusted.
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