different between deprive vs untaste

English

Alternative forms

• depryve (obsolete) , deprieve (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin d?pr?v?, from Latin d? + pr?v?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?a?v/
• Hyphenation: de?prive

Verb

deprive (third-person singular simple present deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)

1. (transitive) To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 260a.

     If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

2. (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
3. (transitive) To bereave.

Synonyms

• bereave
• impoverish

Antonyms

• enrich

Derived terms

• depriver (agent noun)

Related terms

• deprivation
• private
• privation
• privy

Translations

References

Anagrams

• predive, prieved

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?te?st/

Etymology 1

un- +? taste

Verb

untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)

1. To deprive of a taste for something.

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2. To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
   • 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:

     “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, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:

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

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

     Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?

Etymology 2

From un- (“absence of”) +? taste.

Noun

untaste (uncountable)

1. Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
   • 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:

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

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

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

   • 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:

     [...] 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, [...]

Anagrams

• attunes, nutates, tautens, tetanus, unstate

Italian

Verb

untaste

1. second-person plural past historic of untare
2. second-person plural imperfect subjunctive of untare

Portuguese

Verb

untaste

1. Second-person singular (tu) preterite indicative of untar

Spanish

Verb

untaste

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) preterite indicative form of untar.