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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DISREPAI</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="disrepair"> disrepair, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> bad condition; need of repairs. Ex. The old, vacant house was in disrepair. Many of the physical facilities of various Treasury Department bureaus are in such states of disrepair (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="disreputability"> disreputability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> disreputable quality or state. </DL> <A NAME="disreputable"> disreputable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having a bad reputation. Ex. a disreputable old rascal, a disreputable dance hall. (SYN) base, infamous. <DD> 2. not respectable; not fit to be used or seen; in poor condition. Ex. The boy was well dressed except for a disreputable old hat. <DD> 3. discreditable; dishonorable. Ex. a disreputable adventure. noun disreputableness. </DL> <A NAME="disreputably"> disreputably, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a disreputable manner; discreditably. </DL> <A NAME="disreputation"> disreputation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) disrepute. </DL> <A NAME="disrepute"> disrepute, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> loss or absence of reputation; discredit; disfavor. Ex. Many old remedies for illness have fallen into disrepute among doctors. (SYN) disesteem, disgrace, dishonor. </DL> <A NAME="disrespect"> disrespect, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun lack of respect; rudeness; impoliteness; discourtesy. Ex. He meant no disrespect by his hasty remark. Older people criticized the boy's disrespect for his parents. <DD>v.t. to regard or treat rudely or impolitely. </DL> <A NAME="disrespectability"> disrespectability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being disrespectable. </DL> <A NAME="disrespectable"> disrespectable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not respectable. </DL> <A NAME="disrespectful"> disrespectful, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> showing no respect; lacking in courtesy to elders or superiors; impolite; rude. Ex. The disrespectful boy made fun of his father. adv. disrespectfully. noun disrespectfulness. </DL> <A NAME="disrobe"> disrobe, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -robed, -robing. =undress.noun disrobement. </DL> <A NAME="disrober"> disrober, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that strips off clothing or covering. Ex. The trees swept bareby autumn's gale--that swift and merciless disrober (Sir P. Felis). </DL> <A NAME="disroof"> disroof, transitive verb. =unroof.</DL> <A NAME="disroot"> disroot, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to uproot; dislodge. </DL> <A NAME="disrupt"> disrupt, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. to break up; burst apart; split. Ex. The rioters tried to disrupt the assembly. Slavery seemed likely to disrupt the Union. The proposed routes would ... slash through beautiful rural scenery and disrupt residential communities (New York Times). The old man said that smoking stunted a boy's growth, ruined his health, disrupted his moral sense (James T. Farrell). (SYN) shatter. <DD>adj. disrupted. Ex. Their disrupt friendship was later renewed. adv. disruptingly. </DL> <A NAME="disrupter"> disrupter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that disrupts. Ex. Joe, the disrupter, is actively disliked (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="disruption"> disruption, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of breaking up; a splitting; bursting apart; shattering. Ex. Arguments led to the disruption of their partnership. <DD> 2. the condition of being broken up; a being split. Ex. There was a disruption of telephone service during the storm. </DL> <A NAME="disruptionist"> disruptionist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who disrupts or favors disruption. </DL> <A NAME="disruptive"> disruptive, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing disruption; tending to break up. Ex. a disruptive influence. adv. disruptively. noun disruptiveness. </DL> <A NAME="disruptivedischarge"> disruptive discharge,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sudden increase in electric current through an insulating medium caused by the breakdown of the medium under stress. </DL> <A NAME="disruptor"> disruptor, noun. =disrupter.</DL> <A NAME="disrupture"> disrupture, transitive verb, -tured, -turing. =disrupt.</DL> <A NAME="dissatisfaction"> dissatisfaction, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being dissatisfied; discontent; displeasure. Ex. Poor food caused the dissatisfaction among the soldiers. </DL> <A NAME="dissatisfactory"> dissatisfactory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing discontent; unsatisfactory. </DL> <A NAME="dissatisfied"> dissatisfied, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. discontented; displeased. Ex. When we do not get what we want, we are dissatisfied. <DD> 2. showing discontent or displeasure. Ex. a dissatisfied expression. </DL> <A NAME="dissatisfiedly"> dissatisfiedly, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a dissatisfied manner; with dissatisfaction. Ex. She remains dissatisfiedly mute (Rhoda Broughton). </DL> <A NAME="dissatisfy"> dissatisfy, transitive verb, -fied, -fying.<DL COMPACT><DD> to fail to satisfy; make discontented; displease. Ex. The boy's poorgrades dissatisfied his parents. Envy may dissatisfy us with our lot. </DL> <A NAME="dissave"> dissave, intransitive verb, -saved, -saving.<DL COMPACT><DD> to use up one's savings; spend more than one earns. Ex. Rising prices are, it would seem, causing people to dissave--and pour the money into goods--for fear of further depreciation in the value of their savings (Malcolm Crawford). noun dissaver. </DL> <A NAME="dissaving"> dissaving, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the using up of one's savings; a spending more than one earns. Ex. The period immediately before Christmas has traditionally been one of dissaving (Sunday Times). </DL> <A NAME="disseat"> disseat, transitive verb. =unseat.</DL> <A NAME="dissect"> dissect, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to cut apart (an animal, plant, organ, or tissue) in order to examine or study the structure. (SYN) anatomize. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to examine carefully part by part; analyze. Ex. Let us dissect that statement and find out just what it means. Biblical scrolls have been studied, dissected, and made available to scholars (Harold J. Plenderleith). (SYN) scrutinize. <DD> 3. to cut in pieces; divide into parts. Ex. It appears that normal stream-erosion had already dissected large blocks [of rock] (E. F. Roots). </DL> <A NAME="dissected"> dissected, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. cut up; divided. <DD> 2. (Botany.) cut or divided into many lobes. Ex. dissected leaves. <DD> 3. (Geology.) cut up by irregular valleys. Ex. a dissected plateau. </DL> <A NAME="dissectible"> dissectible, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be dissected. </DL> <A NAME="dissection"> dissection, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of cutting apart an animal or plant, or any part of an animal or plant, in order to examine or study the structure. Ex. At Padua, the center of medical studies, the first public dissection (as opposed to occasional private autopsies which were performed whenever a person of consequence had died under mysterious circumstances) took place in 1341 (Erwin Panofsky). <DD> 2. an animal, plant, etc., that has been dissected. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) examination of something in detail or point by point; analysis. Ex. A dissection of your argument shows several inconsistencies. </DL> <A NAME="dissector"> dissector, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who dissects. <DD> 2. an instrument used in dissecting. </DL> <A NAME="disseise"> disseise, transitive verb, -seised, -seising. =disseize.</DL> <A NAME="disseize"> disseize, transitive verb, -seized, -seizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) <DD> 1. to deprive (a person) of possession wrongfully or by force. <DD> 2. to dispossess; oust. </DL> <A NAME="disseizee"> disseizee, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a person who is disseized. </DL> <A NAME="disseizin"> disseizin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) <DD> 1. the act of disseizing. <DD> 2. the state of being disseized. </DL> <A NAME="disseizor"> disseizor, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a person who disseizes; dispossessor. </DL> <A NAME="disselboom"> disselboom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in South Africa) the pole of a wagon, by which it is hauled. Ex. The last two oxen are yoked to the disselboom, to which is attached a long chain, or rope of hemp; to this the other yokes are attached (Richard Cadbury). </DL> <A NAME="dissemblance"> dissemblance, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of dissembling; dissimulation. <DD> 2. (Archaic.) lack of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. </DL> <A NAME="dissemble"> dissemble, verb, -bled, -bling.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to hide (one's real feelings, thoughts, plans, or motives); disguise. Ex. She dissembled her anger with a smile. <DD> 2. to put on the appearance of; pretend; feign. Ex. The bored listener dissembled an interest he didn't feel. <DD> 3. to pretend not to see or notice; disregard; ignore; neglect. <DD>v.i. to conceal one's real feelings, thoughts, plans, or motives; be a hypocrite; dissimulate. Ex. Families that quarrel in the privacy of the home do well to dissemble when they go out to dinner (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="dissembler"> dissembler, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who dissembles; one who practices duplicity; a deceiver; hypocrite. Ex. A deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but of religion (Milton). </DL> <A NAME="dissemblingly"> dissemblingly, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a dissembling manner; deceptively. </DL> <A NAME="disseminate"> disseminate, transitive verb, -nated, -nating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to scatter widely; spread abroad. Ex. News is disseminated by means of television and radio. (SYN) diffuse, promulgate. </DL> <A HREF="dissensi.dic">NEXT</A>