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relish
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relish as in:  relished the experience

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    They would have relished a turn with the Fury's whip, given the chance.  (source)
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    Not relishing the prospect of carrying a four-week load of food, heavy winter camping gear, and climbing hardware all the way up the Baird on my back, I had paid a bush pilot in Petersburg $150, the last of my cash, to have six cardboard cartons of supplies dropped from an airplane when I reached the foot of the Thumb.  (source)
    relishing = enthusiastic about
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    It was the only sensation of familiarity I'd felt since coming to this place, and I relished it.  (source)
    relished = enthusiastically enjoyed
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    She was too indolent even to accept a mother's gratification in witnessing their success and enjoyment at the expense of any personal trouble, and the charge was made over to her sister, who desired nothing better than a post of such honourable representation, and very thoroughly relished the means it afforded her of mixing in society without having horses to hire.  (source)
    relished = enthusiastically enjoyed
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    He guzzled his water, relishing the wet coolness as it washed down his dry throat.†  (source)
    relishing = enthusiastic about
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    Lourdes relishes moments with her daughter Diana.†  (source)
    relishes = enthusiastically enjoys
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    With the children gone, the two men stood studying the lions clustered at a distance, eating with great relish whatever it was they had caught.  (source)
    relish = enthusiastic enjoyment
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    As he glanced timidly up, and met the Jew's searching look, he felt that his pale face and trembling limbs were neither unnoticed nor unrelished by that wary old gentleman.†  (source)
    unrelished = not enthusiastically enjoyed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrelished means not and reverses the meaning of relished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "'Cure them if they are sick,"' Kim quoted relishingly, "'but by no means work charms.†  (source)
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    Lilian relished the fluttering in her stomach whenever she looked at Sam.†  (source)
    relished = enthusiastically enjoyed
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    He laughed, relishing my baffled horror.†  (source)
    relishing = enthusiastic about
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    The center of the table was laden with trays and bowls filled with eggs, fish (not from the marshy lake, but from the sea beyond), spiced chicken, bread, braised vegetables, and half a dozen relishes of various types.†  (source)
    relishes = enthusiastically enjoys
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    And in Sachsenhausen, they played the game with relish.  (source)
    relish = enthusiastic enjoyment
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common meaning

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    They didn't particularly relish the opportunity of explaining just where the fruit had come from.†  (source)
    relish = a condiment that is put on food--such as a sweet, green pickle relish sometimes put on hot dogs
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    These people had four cats, Ketchup, Mustard, Relish, and Mayo.†  (source)
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    "Ooooh, it was dreadful," she said with relish.†  (source)
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    In the icebox he found hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, relish.†  (source)
    relish = a condiment that is put on food--such as a sweet, green pickle relish sometimes put on hot dogs
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    I've spent a lot of time alone in the country over the course of my many visits and usually relish it.†  (source)
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    He imagined Benjamin, the scientific male in his group, beginning to read pages of rules and instructions with relish.†  (source)
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    I don't exempt myself: I relish these grubby little sins, these squalid family tangles, these cherished traumas.†  (source)
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    Sitting on the couch, Richard put a slice of smoked salmon on a piece of bread and chewed it with relish even as he spread caviar on a blini.†  (source)
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    And her mother needed burying, though I didn't relish another trip back to the public square.†  (source)
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    We want to make sure you have a nice, enjoyable hike—relish the joys of nature and all that.†  (source)
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    Your savages might relish a bit of rapine.†  (source)
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    I do not relish killing, but I will do it if I must.†  (source)
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    She mumbles something and ignores me, licking her lips with apparent relish.†  (source)
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