DISINURE
DISINURE, verb transitive [dis and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DISINVITE
DISINVITE, verb transitive To recall an invitation.
DISINVOLVE
DISINVOLVE, verb transitive disinvolv. [dis and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
DISJOIN
DISJOIN, verb transitive [dis and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
DISJOINED
DISJOINED, participle passive Disunited; separated.
DISJOINING
DISJOINING, participle present tense Disuniting; severing.
DISJOINT
DISJOINT, verb transitive [dis and joint.]1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving...
DISJOINTED
DISJOINTED, participle passive Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not coherent.
DISJOINTING
DISJOINTING, participle present tense Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent.
DISJOINTLY
DISJOINTLY, adverb In a divided state.
DISJUDICATION
DISJUDICATION, noun [Latin] Judgment; determination. [Not used.]
DISJUNCT
DISJUNCT, adjective [Latin, to join.] Disjoined; separated.
DISJUNCTION
DISJUNCTION, noun [Latin] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of soul and body.
DISJUNCTIVE
DISJUNCTIVE, adjective1. Separating; disjoining.2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.]3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the ...
DISJUNCTIVELY
DISJUNCTIVELY, adverb In a disjunctive manner; separately.
DISK
DISK, noun [Latin See Dish and Desk.]1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth, as it appears to a s...
DISKINDNESS
DISKINDNESS, noun [dis and kindness.]1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.2. Ill turn; injury; detriment.
DISLIKE
DISLIKE, noun [dis and like.]1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to ...
DISLIKED
DISLIKED, participle passive Disapproved; disrelished.
DISLIKEFUL
DISLIKEFUL, adjective Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.]
DISLIKEN
DISLIKEN, verb transitive To make unlike.
DISLIKENESS
DISLIKENESS, noun [dis and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude.
DISLIKER
DISLIKER, noun One who disapproves, or disrelishes.
DISLIKING
DISLIKING, participle present tense Disapproving; disrelishing.
DISLIMB
DISLIMB, verb transitive dislim. To tear the limbs from.
DISLIMN
DISLIMN, verb transitive dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.]
DISLOCATE
DISLOCATE, verb transitive [dis and locate, Latin, place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its s...