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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.

Dischurch

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

Discide

To divide; to cleave in two.

Disciflorous Discifloral

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Discina

A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

Discipleship

The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

Disciplinable

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

Disciplinarian

One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

Disciplinary

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

Discipline

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

Disclaim

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

Disclaimer

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

Discloak

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

Disclosed

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.

Disclosure

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

Discoast

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

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