RELISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relishing mean? 

• RELISHING (noun)
  The noun RELISHING has 1 sense:

1. taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

  Familiarity information: RELISHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELISHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting

Context example:

cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most

Hypernyms ("relishing" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

 Context examples 

In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)