A woman who directs.

A directress.

Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

In a dire manner.

To separate by force; to tear apart.

A tearing apart; violent separation.

Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.

Characterized by direption.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice.

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

Funereal; moaning.

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.

The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

The practice or inclination to direct (activities) by a central authority; as, the linguistic dirigisme of prescriptivists clashes with the modern tendency toward acceptance of multiculturalism. See also dirigiste.

Directed by a central authority; as, a dirigiste economy; with respect to economics, opposed to free-market. See also dirigisme.

Absolute.

To darken.

Darkness.

To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

the act of soiling something.

Disruption.

The god Pluto, god of the underworld; also called Dis Pater.

to treat in a disrespectful manner; to insult, disparage or belittle.

any orchid of the genus Disa, a genus of beautiful orchids with dark green leaves and usually hooded flowers; -- they are much prized as emblematic flowers in their native regions.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

injured so as to be unable to function; as, disabled veterans.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

causing or having caused disability; rendering disabled; as, disabling injury.

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of; as, to disabuse one of his illusions.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.

Disagreement.

Not accordant.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.

To free from acid.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

To deprive of ornaments.

To draw back, or cause to draw back.

To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

Injurious; disadvantageous.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

Misfortune; mishap.

Unprosperous; unfortunate.

To advise against; to dissuade from.

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disagreement.

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

One who disagrees.

To alienate from allegiance.

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

Not allowable; not to be suffered.

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.

Not angelical.

To deprive of life.

Privation of life.

To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

One who disannuls.

Complete annulment.

To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

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.

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

p. pr. vb. n. of Disappear.

A detachment or separation from a former connection.

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.

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.

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

the act of disappointing someone.

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

To undervalue; not to esteem.

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

Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

To release from individual ownership or possession.

The act of disappropriating.

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

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.

One who disapproves.

expressing disapproval.

In a disapproving manner.

See Dizzard.

To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

The act of disarming.

The act of divesting of armature.

Deprived of arms.

One who disarms.

act of reducing or depriving of weapons.

To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

having the arrangement disturbed; not put in order; as, her disarranged hair. Opposite of arranged.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.

Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

Disorder.

To sunder; to separate, as joints.

One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

to be able to come apart easily; to be converted into constituent parts; as, the rifle disassembles into small pieces for concealment.