Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to degust
Participle: degusted
Gerund: degusting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | degust |
| you | degust |
| he;she;it | degusts |
| we | degust |
| you | degust |
| they | degust |
Perfect
| I | have degusted |
| you | have degusted |
| he;she;it | has degusted |
| we | have degusted |
| you | have degusted |
| they | have degusted |
Past
| I | degusted |
| you | degusted |
| he;she;it | degusted |
| we | degusted |
| you | degusted |
| they | degusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had degusted |
| you | had degusted |
| he;she;it | had degusted |
| we | had degusted |
| you | had degusted |
| they | had degusted |
Future
| I | will degust |
| you | will degust |
| he;she;it | will degust |
| we | will degust |
| you | will degust |
| they | will degust |
Future Perfect
| I | will have degusted |
| you | will have degusted |
| he;she;it | will have degusted |
| we | will have degusted |
| you | will have degusted |
| they | will have degusted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | degust |
| you | degust |
| he;she;it | degust |
| we | degust |
| you | degust |
| they | degust |
Perfect
| I | have degusted |
| you | have degusted |
| he;she;it | have degusted |
| we | have degusted |
| you | have degusted |
| they | have degusted |
Imperfect
| I | degusted |
| you | degusted |
| he;she;it | degusted |
| we | degusted |
| you | degusted |
| they | degusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had degusted |
| you | had degusted |
| he;she;it | had degusted |
| we | had degusted |
| you | had degusted |
| they | had degusted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would degust |
| you | would degust |
| he;she;it | would degust |
| we | would degust |
| you | would degust |
| they | would degust |
Perfect
| I | would have degusted |
| you | would have degusted |
| he;she;it | would have degusted |
| we | would have degusted |
| you | would have degusted |
| they | would have degusted |
Imperative
| you | degust |
| we | Let's degust |
| you | degust |
Verbs conjugated like 'degust'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'degust'
dedust,
degut,
august,
bedust,
debus,
debut,
decrust,
decunt,
decurt,
decyst,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French déguster. Doublet of degustate.
Verbs referencing "degust"
Polish
degustować.
Sample Sentences
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If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy "took his whack," like liquorice water. [1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, →ISBN, page 35f.:]
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The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish. [1892, M. Betham-Edwards, A north-country comedy, J.B. Lippincott, page 17:]
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I began to tell him all the tale of the demons, at which relation, first of all, he cried "Pshaw!"... But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning... [1895, O. Crawfurd, Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, volume 1, Chapman & Hall, page 269:]
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He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older [1898, L. Menand, Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, page 78:]
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as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted. [1904, F.T. Bullen, Creatures of the Sea: Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes, Religious Tract Society, page 409:]
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Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake. [1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:]
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This book is meant to help you along in your own quest for cheese, and I hope that you do taste the cheeses that you read about. By the time you finish this book you should have degusted a lot of wonderful cheese. [2008, J. Hurt, S. Ehlers, “Introduction”, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World: A Tasteful Guide to Selecting, Serving, and Enjoying Cheese, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:]