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

 dis·gust /dɪˈskʌst, dɪsˈgʌst ||dɪz-/
 U厭惡,噁心(vt.)使厭惡,使噁心(vi.)令人厭惡

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·gust, n.  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.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·gust v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting.]  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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 disgust
      n : strong feelings of dislike
      v 1: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: gross
           out, revolt, repel]
      2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
         pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: revolt, nauseate,
          sicken, churn up]