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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Disgust

/dĭs-gŭstʹ/ · Dis·gust · IPA /dɪsˈɡʌst/
01 v. t. 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 …
imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting
  1. 1.
    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.
02 n. Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of t…
  1. 1.
    Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.
    “The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received.” — Locke.
    “In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust.” — Macaulay.
Syn. Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike; disinclination; abomination. See Dislike.