taste
/teɪst/ verb B1- To sample the flavor of something orally.
- To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished. · The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally. · I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
- To experience. · They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
He/she/it tastes · Past tasted · Past participle tasted · -ing form tasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- taste
- He/she/it
- tastes
- Past
- tasted
- Past participle
- tasted
- -ing form
- tasting
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Josie’s triumph being rather more pronounced than good taste permitted, Anne Shirley dared her to walk along the top of the board fence which bounded the garden to the east.
“Anne Shirley, since you seem to be so fond of the boys’ company we shall indulge your taste for it this afternoon,” he said sarcastically.
The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.
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