• IPA: /dɪsˈɡʌst/, [dɪsˈkʌst]

disgust (disgusts, present participle disgusting; past and past participle disgusted)

1. To cause an intense dislike for something.

   It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: Printed [by R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309 ↗, Act III, scene iv ↗:

     Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: {{...}

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.

• French: dégoûter
• German: ekeln
• Italian: disgustare, ripugnare, nauseare, stomacare, rivoltare
• Portuguese: enojar, repugnar
• Russian: вызыва́ть отвраще́ние
• Spanish: repugnar, dar asco, asquear

disgust (uncountable)

1. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

   With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

• French: dégoût
• German: Ekel
• Italian: disgusto, schifo, ripugnanza
• Portuguese: repugnância, nojo
• Russian: отвраще́ние
• Spanish: asco, repugnancia, desazón, repulsa