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Disappear

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.

Disappearance

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

Disappendency

A detachment or separation from a former connection.

Disappendent

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.

Disappoint

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.

Disappointed

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

Disappointment

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

Disapprobation

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

Disapproval

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

Disapprove

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.

Disarm

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

disarming

act of reducing or depriving of weapons.

Disarrange

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

disarranged

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

Disarrangement

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

Disarray

Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

disassemble

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

disassembler

a computer program that takes as input a computer program in machine language and produces an equivalent assembly-language file.

Disassimilation

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; -- now more commonly called catabolism.

Disassimilative

Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.

Disassociate

To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.

Disaster

To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

Disastrous

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.

Disauthorize

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.

Disavow

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

Disavowal

The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.

Disband

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

Disbar

To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

Disbelief

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

Disbelieve

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

Disbeliever

One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.

Disboscation

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

Disbranch

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

Disbud

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

Disburden

To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.

Disburgeon

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.

Disburse

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

Disc

A flat round plate A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

disc jockey

a person who plays records or compact disks of recorded music; a person who selects and plays recorded music for broadcast over the radio, often making comments about the music or other topics and also announcing commercial advertising messages; also, one who plays recorded music at a dance or social gathering, especially as a profession.

Discal

Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

Discalceated

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

Discalced

Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

Discard

The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

Discede

To yield or give up; to depart.

Discern

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

Discerner

One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.

Discernible

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.

Discernibly

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

Discerning

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Discerningly

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

Discerption

The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

Discharge

The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.

Discharger

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

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