verb
- Fill with distaste.
- usage: "This spoilt food disgusts me"
- Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of.
- usage: "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
adjective
- Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.
- usage: "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
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