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
From the library
The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!”
“I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.”
“You may not have lived much under the sea—” (“I haven’t,” said Alice)—“and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster—” (Alice began to say “I once tasted—” but checked herself hastily, and said “No, never”) “—so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!”
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