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untasting

untasting is the present participle and gerund of untaste.

Meaning of untaste

Verb

untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)

  1. To deprive of taste.
    • […]Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224
  2. (transitive) To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
    • “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73

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Adjective

untasting (not comparable)

  1. That does not taste.
    • I have no appetite, and the food would be wasted on my untasting tongue.2014, Magus Tor, Life Bank: Selling life for money, page 18

Questions about untasting

What does untasting mean?
Untasting means that does not taste.
What is untasting the present participle and gerund of?
Untasting is the present participle and gerund of untaste.
What part of speech is untasting?
Untasting is an adjective.

Words near untasting in the dictionary

  1. untasted
  2. untasteful
  3. untastefully
  4. untastefulness
  5. untastes
  6. untasting
  7. untasty
  8. untattered
  9. untattooed
  10. untaught
  11. untaughtness

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