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Disgust means a feeling of disapproval or revulsion.

(noun)

The feeling you get when you see or smell something really gross is an example of disgust.

Disgust is defined as to cause someone to feel revulsion or disapproval.

(verb)

When you cause someone to be really grossed out, this is an example of a time when you disgust him.

See disgust in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a sickening distaste or dislike; deep aversion; repugnance

Origin: MFr desgoust, distaste < des- (see dis-) + L gustus, a taste, relish: see gusto

transitive verb

to cause to feel disgust; be sickening, repulsive, or very distasteful to

Origin: MFr desgouster < des- (see dis-) + L gustare, to taste

intransitive verb

to arouse disgust

Related Forms:

disgusted adjective
disgustedly adverb
disgusting adjective
disgustingly adverb

See disgust in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb dis·gust·ed, dis·gust·ing, dis·gusts

To excite nausea or loathing in; sicken.
To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.

noun

Profound aversion or repugnance excited by something offensive.

Origin:

Origin: Late Old French desgouster, to lose one's appetite

Origin: : des-, dis-

Origin: + gouster, to eat, taste (from Latin gustāre; see geus- in Indo-European roots)

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