Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 58

Disagreement (n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.

Disagreement (n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.

Disagreement (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Disagreer (n.) One who disagrees.

Disalliege (v. t.) To alienate from allegiance.

Disallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disallow

Disallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disallow

Disallow (v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

Disallowable (a.) Not allowable; not to be suffered.

Disallowance (n.) The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Disally (v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

Disanchor (v. t. & i.) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.

Disangelical (a.) Not angelical.

Disanimated (imp. & p. p.) of Disanimate

Disanimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disanimate

Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of life.

Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

Disanimation (n.) Privation of life.

Disanimation (n.) The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.

Disannex (v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

Disannul (v. t.) To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

Disannuller (n.) One who disannuls.

Disannulment (n.) Complete annulment.

Disanoint (v. t.) To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.

Disapparel (v. t.) To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

Disappeared (imp. & p. p.) of Disappear

Disappearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappear

Disappear (v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

Disappear (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

Disappearance (n.) The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

Disappendency (n.) A detachment or separation from a former connection.

Disappendent (a.) Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.

Disapointed (imp. & p. p.) of Disappoint

Disappointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappoint

Disappoint (v. t.) To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.

Disappoint (v. t.) To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.

Disappointed (a.) Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

Disappointed (a.) Unprepared; unequipped.

Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

Disappointment (n.) That which disappoints.

Disappreciate (v. t.) To undervalue; not to esteem.

Disapprobation (n.) The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

Disapprobatory (a.) Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

Disappropriate (a.) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.

Disappropriate (v. t.) To release from individual ownership or possession.

Disappropriate (v. t.) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.

Disappropriation (n.) The act of disappropriating.

Disapproval (n.) Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

Disapproved (imp. & p. p.) of Disapprove

Disapproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disapprove

Disapprove (v. t.) To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.

Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

Disapprover (n.) One who disapproves.

Disapprovingly (adv.) In a disapproving manner.

Disard (n.) See Dizzard.

Disarming (imp. & p. p.) of Disarm

Disarming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarm

Disarm (v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

Disarm (v. t.) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

Disarmament (n.) The act of disarming.

Disarmature (n.) The act of divesting of armature.

Disarmed (a.) Deprived of arms.

Disarmed (a.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks.

Disarmer (n.) One who disarms.

Disarranged (imp. & p. p.) of Disarrange

Disarranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarrange

Disarrange (v. t.) To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

Disarrangement (n.) The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.

Disarrayed (imp. & p. p.) of Disarray

Disarraying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disarray

Disarray (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

Disarray (v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.

Disarray (n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

Disarray (n.) Confused attire; undress.

Disarrayment (n.) Disorder.

Disarticulate (v. t.) To sunder; to separate, as joints.

Disarticulator (n.) One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

Disassent (v. i.) To dissent.

Disassent (n.) Dissent.

Disassenter (n.) One who disassents; a dissenter.

Disassiduity (n.) Want of assiduity or care.

Disassimilate (v. t.) To subject to disassimilation.

Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.

Disassimilative (a.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.

Disassociated (imp. & p. p.) of Disassociate

Disassociating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disassociate

Disassociate (v. t.) To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.

Disaster (n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

Disaster (n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

Disaster (v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

Disaster (v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.

Disasterly (adv.) Disastrously.

Disastrous (a.) Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.

Disastrous (a.) Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.

Disattire (v. t.) To unrobe; to undress.

Disaugment (v. t.) To diminish.

Disauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.

Disavaunce (v. t.) To retard; to repel; to do damage to.

Disaventure (n.) Misfortune.

Disaventurous (a.) Misadventurous; unfortunate.

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