Dictionary entry

Disgust

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐gust″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n.Disgusting.] [OF. desgouster, F. dégoûter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. goûter, fr. L. gustare, fr. gustus taste. See Gust to taste.] To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; — often with at, with, or by.

To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott.

Ærius is expressly declared... to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman.

Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. Macaulay.