untaste

present singular third person untastes · participle present untasting · participle past untasted · past untasted

1. To deprive of taste.

   […]Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;

   1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224

2. transitiveTo lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of

   Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?

   2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45

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   “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!

   2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73

   He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.

   2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40

1. uncountableAbsence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness

   Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.

   1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267

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   Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.

   1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66

   [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of hell, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]

   2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness