relish
/ˈɹɛlɪʃ/ verb C2- To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing.
- To take delight or pleasure in (someone or oneself, or something). · He relishes their time together.· I don’t relish the idea of going out tonight.
- Followed by in: to take delight or pleasure.
Plural relish · He/she/it relishes · Past relished · Past participle relished · -ing form relishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- relish
- He/she/it
- relishes
- Past
- relished
- Past participle
- relished
- -ing form
- relishing
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I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though, perhaps, it was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic felicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly.
A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg.
You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.”
“She is under the big chestnut-tree,” replied the spoiled brat, as he gave, in spite of his mother’s commands, live flies to the parrot, which seemed keenly to relish such fare.
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