relish
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Is relish a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of relish?
Definition
noun (English)
1. A taste (for); liking (of); fondness. [with for]Examples: "I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious."; "One of the first acts which he was under the necessity of performing must have been painful to a man of so generous a nature, and of so keen a relish for whatever was excellent in arts and letters."; "Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor oftransitive
2. (transitive) To take great pleasure in.Examples: "He relishes their time together."; "I don't relish the idea of going out tonight."; "Now Vlysses, I begin to relliſh thy aduice, / And I wil giue a taste of it forthwith / To Agamemnon, go we to him ſtraight:"transitive
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.Examples: "honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better."; "Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relish'd among my other discredits."; "A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature."Synonyms: appreciateintransitiveobsolete
4. (transitive) To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing.Examples: "By this the boiling Kettle had prepar'd, / And to the Table ſent, the ſmoaking Lard; / On which the eager Appetite they dine, / A ſav'ry Bit, that ſerv'd to relliſh Wine: [...]"transitive
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To give pleasure.intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary