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misflavour

/mɪsˈfleɪvə(ɹ)/

misflavour verb: to impair the flavour of.

Verb

misflavour (third-person singular simple present misflavours, present participle misflavouring, simple past and past participle misflavoured)

  1. To impair the flavour of.
    • The flavour thresholds of the 239 compounds examined varied over a range of 2 x 10¹², and on occasion, compounds of high chemical purity (99% +) were organoleptically impure or even misflavoured.1976, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, page 9
    • This means that impurities present at the ppu level can easily misflavour the compound under study.1981, Morten Christian Meilgaard, Beer Flavour, page 24

Noun

misflavour (countable and uncountable, plural misflavours)

  1. The state of being misflavoured.
    • Powders produced in those days were, compared with today's standards, of poor flowability and solubility, difficult to handle, dusty, and prone to misflavour as a result of degradation in the drying process.1997, Christopher G.J. Baker, Industrial Drying of Foods, page 90
    • Durhang had a way of making one ravenous, sufficient to overcome the dreadful misflavours of such malodorous staples.2010, Steven Erikson, The Tales Of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Vol 1, page 102

Forms of misflavour

Verb
third-person singular presentmisflavours
present participlemisflavouring
past participlemisflavoured
pastmisflavoured
Noun
pluralmisflavours

Origin of misflavour

From mis- + flavour.

Questions about misflavour

What does misflavour mean?
Misflavour means to impair the flavour of.
What part of speech is misflavour?
Misflavour can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce misflavour?
Misflavour is pronounced /mɪsˈfleɪvə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of misflavour?
The past tense of misflavour is misflavoured.

Words near misflavour in the dictionary

  1. misflags
  2. misflavor
  3. misflavored
  4. misflavoring
  5. misflavors
  6. misflavour
  7. misflavoured
  8. misflavouring
  9. misflavours
  10. misflip
  11. misflipped

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