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Meaning of mistaste | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
mɪsˈteɪst

Definitions

  1. To overindulge in food or drink
  2. To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
  3. To taste wrongly or in error

Examples

“I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, which are, if I mistaste not, left as follows.”
“The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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