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distasted

distasted is the simple past and past participle of distaste.

Meaning of distaste

Verb

distaste (third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
    • How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (intransitive) To be distasteful; to taste bad
    • Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
    • He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
    • And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 81, page 151

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What is distasted the simple past and past participle of?
Distasted is the simple past and past participle of distaste.

Words near distasted in the dictionary

  1. distants
  2. distarch
  3. DiStasio
  4. DiStasios
  5. distaste
  6. distasted
  7. distasteful
  8. distastefull
  9. distastefully
  10. distastefulness
  11. distastes

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