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Webster 1913 Edition


Untaste

Un-taste′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
taste
.]
To deprive of a taste for a thing.
[R.]
Daniel.

Definition 2024


untaste

untaste

English

Verb

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

  1. To deprive of a taste for something.
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  2. To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
    • 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
      “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, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:
      He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.
    • 2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:
      Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?

Etymology 2

From un- (absence of) + taste.

Noun

untaste (uncountable)

  1. Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
    • 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
      Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.
    • 1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:
      Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.
    • 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:
      [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of ****, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]


Italian

Verb

untaste

  1. second-person plural past historic of untare
  2. second-person plural imperfect subjunctive of untare

Portuguese

Verb

untaste

  1. Second-person singular (tu) preterite indicative of untar

Spanish

Verb

untaste

  1. Informal second-person singular () preterite indicative form of untar.