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Disinterest

To divest of interest or interested motives.

Disinterested

Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.

Disinterment

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

Disinure

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.

Disinvolve

To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

Disjoin

To become separated; to part.

Disjointed

Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.

Disjunction

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

Disjunctive

A disjunctive conjunction. A disjunctive proposition.

Disjuncture

The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.

Disk

A discus; a quoit.

diskette

a data-storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides, enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit. It is used in a specially designed disk drive, in which the disk is rotated at high speed, and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read-write head of the drive. Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process, by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk. Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer.

Diskless

Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

disklike

resembling a disk in shape; circular and having a height considerably smaller than the diameter.

Dislike

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

dislike

A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

dislikeful

Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable.

Disliker

One who dislikes or disrelishes.

Dislimb

To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

Dislink

To unlink; to disunite; to separate.

dislocated

separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a dislocated knee.

Dislocation

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

Dislodgment

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

Disloign

To put at a distance; to remove.

Disloyal

Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

Disloyalty

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Dismal

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

Dismally

In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

Dismalness

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Dismantle

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

Dismarry

To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.

Dismarshal

To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder.

Dismast

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

Dismastment

The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted.

Dismaw

To eject from the maw; to disgorge.

Dismay

Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

Dismayedness

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Disme

A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.

Dismember

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

Dismemberment

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.

Dismettled

Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.

Dismission

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Dismount

To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

Disnaturalize

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

Disnatured

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.

Disobedience

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

Disobedient

Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.

Disobey

To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.

Disoblige

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

Disobliging

Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

Disoccident

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.

Disopinion

Want or difference of belief; disbelief.

Disorb

To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.

Disorder

To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

Disordered

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

Disorderly

In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.

Disordination

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion.

Disorganize

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.

Disorganizer

One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.

Disorient

To turn away from the east; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

Disorientate

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.

disoriented

having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

disorienting

causing disorientation: causing confusion of directions.

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