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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dis·taste /(ˌ)dɪsˈtest/
 討厭,嫌惡

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·taste n.
 1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
 2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
    Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.   --Bacon.
 3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
 On the part of Heaven,
 Now alienated, distance and distaste.   --Milton.
 Syn: -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·taste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting.]
 1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
    Although my will distaste what it elected.   --Shak.
 2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
    He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.   --Sir J. Davies.
 3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·taste v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
 Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
 Which at the are scarce found to distaste.   --Shak.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 distaste
      n : a feeling of intense dislike [syn: antipathy, aversion]