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disgust

/dɪsˈɡʌst/ verb B2
  1. To cause an intense dislike for something. · It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.

He/she/it disgusts · Past disgusted · Past participle disgusted · -ing form disgusting

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Verb forms

Base form
disgust
He/she/it
disgusts
Past
disgusted
Past participle
disgusted
-ing form
disgusting

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This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 56 · B2
He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla’s disgust.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 188 · C1
Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 9 · B2
It had given him a disgust to his business and to his residence in a small market town; and, quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge; where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 17 · B2

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