DISROOTING
DISROOTING, participle present tense Tearing up by the roots; undermining.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DISROOTING, participle present tense Tearing up by the roots; undermining.
DISRUPT, adjective [Latin, to burst.] Rent from; torn asunder; severed by rending or breaking.
DISRUPTION, noun [Latin]1. The act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating.2. Breach; rent; dilaceration; as the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; the disrupt...
DISRUPTURE, verb transitive [dis and rupture.] To rend; to sever by tearing, breaking or bursting. [Unnecessary, as it is synonymous with rupture.]
DISRUPTURED, participle passive Rent asunder; severed by breaking.
DISRUPTURING, participle present tense Rending asunder; severing.
DISSATISFACTION, noun [dis and satisfaction.] The state of being dissatisfied; discontent; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and ...
DISSATISFACTORINESS, noun Inability to satisfy or give content; a failing to give content.
DISSATISFACTORY, adjective Unable to give content. Rather, giving discontent; displeasing.To have reduced the different qualifications, in the different states, to one uniform r...
DISSATISFIED, participle passive1. Made discontented; displeased.2.adjective Discontented; not satisfied; not pleased; offended.
DISSATISFY, verb transitive To render discontented; to displease; to excite uneasiness by frustrating wishes or expectations.
DISSATISFYING, participle present tense Exciting uneasiness or discontent.
DISSEAT, verb transitive To remove from a seat.
DISSECT, verb transitive [Latin, to cut.]1. To cut in pieces; to divide an animal body, with a cutting instrument, by separating the joints; as, to dissect a fowl. Hence appropr...
DISSECTED, participle passive Cut in pieces; separated by parting the joints; divided into its constituent parts; opened and examined.
DISSECTING, participle present tense Cutting in pieces; dividing the parts; separating constituent parts for minute examination.
DISSECTION, noun [Latin]1. The act of cutting in pieces an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and uses of its parts; anatomy.DISSECTION was held sac...
DISSECTOR, noun One who dissects; an anatomist.
DISSEIZE, verb transitive [dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold....
DISSEIZED, participle passive Put out of possession wrongfully or by force; deprived of actual possession.
DISSEIZEE, noun A person put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.
DISSEIZIN, noun The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments; a deprivation of actual seizin.
DISSEIZING, participle present tense Depriving of actual seizin or possession; putting out of possession.
DISSEIZOR, noun One who puts another out of possession wrongfully; he that dispossessses another.
DISSEMBLANCE, noun [dis and semblance.] Want of resemblance. [Little used.]
DISSEMBLE, verb transitive [Latin]1. To hide under a false appearance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend that not to be which really is; as, I will not dissemble the truth; I ...
DISSEMBLED, participle passive Concealed under a false appearance; disguised.