Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 65

Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

Disenfranchise (v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.

Disengaged (imp. & p. p.) of Disengage

Disengaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disengage

Disengage (v. t.) To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.

Disengage (v. i.) To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.

Disengaged (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Disengagement (n.) The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

Disengagement (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Disengaging (a.) Loosing; setting free; detaching.

Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

Disenrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Disenroll

Disenrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disenroll

Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.

Disensanity (n.) Insanity; folly.

Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

Disenslave (v. t.) To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

Disentail (v. t.) To free from entailment.

Disentangled (imp. & p. p.) of Disentangle

Disentangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disentangle

Disentangle (v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

Disentanglement (n.) The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties.

Disenter (v. t.) See Disinter.

Disenthrall (v. t.) To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.

Disenthrallment (n.) Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment.

Disenthrone (v. t.) To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.

Disentitle (v. t.) To deprive of title or claim.

Disentomb (v. t.) To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

Disentrail (v. t.) To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails.

Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.

Disentwine (v. t.) To free from being entwined or twisted.

Disepalous (a.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

Disert (a.) Eloquent.

Disertitude (n.) Eloquence.

Diserty (adv.) Expressly; clearly; eloquently.

Disespouse (v. t.) To release from espousal or plighted faith.

Disestablish (v. t.) To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state.

Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

Disestablishment (n.) The condition of being disestablished.

Disesteem (n.) Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

Disesteemed (imp. & p. p.) of Disesteem

Disesteeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disesteem

Disesteem (v. t.) To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

Disesteem (v. t.) To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor.

Disesteemer (n.) One who disesteems.

Disestimation (n.) Disesteem.

Disexercise (v. t.) To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained.

Disfame (n.) Disrepute.

Disfancy (v. t.) To dislike.

Disfashion (v. t.) To disfigure.

Disfavor (n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

Disfavor (n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

Disfavor (n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.

Disfavored (imp. & p. p.) of Disfavor

Disfavoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfavor

Disfavor (v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

Disfavor (v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.

Disfavorable (a.) Unfavorable.

Disfavorably (adv.) Unpropitiously.

Disfavorer (n.) One who disfavors.

Disfeature (v. t.) To deprive of features; to mar the features of.

Disfellowship (v. t.) To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.

Disfiguration (n.) The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

Disfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Disfigure

Disfiguring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfigure

Disfigure (v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

Disfigure (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

Disfigurement (n.) Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.

Disfigurement (n.) That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.

Disfigurer (n.) One who disfigures.

Disflesh (v. t.) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.

Disforest (v. t.) To disafforest.

Disforest (v. t.) To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.

Disformity (n.) Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.

Disfranchised (imp. & p. p.) of Disfranchise

Disfranchising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfranchise

Disfranchise (v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.

Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

Disfriar (v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

Disfrock (v. t.) To unfrock.

Disfurnished (imp. & p. p.) of Disfurnish

Disfurnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disfurnish

Disfurnish (v. t.) To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

Disfurnishment (n.) The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.

Disfurniture (n.) The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.

Disfurniture (v. t.) To disfurnish.

Disgage (v. t.) To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

Disgallant (v. t.) To deprive of gallantry.

Disgarland (v. t.) To strip of a garland.

Disgarnish (v. t.) To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.

Disgarrison (v. t.) To deprive of a garrison.

Disgaveled (imp. & p. p.) of Disgavel

Disgaveled () of Disgavel

Disgaveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgavel

Disgavel (v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

Disgest (v. t.) To digest.

Disgestion (n.) Digestion.

Disglorified (imp. & p. p.) of Disglorify

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