Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.

A disposer.

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

One who dispossesses.

To eject from a post; to displace.

The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

Blamable.

The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.

One who blames or dispraises.

By way of dispraise.

To extend or expand itself.

One who spreads abroad.

To free from prejudice.

To render unprepared.

To make unlike a prince.

To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.

To deprive of a privilege or privileges.

To depreciate.

To renounce the profession or pursuit of.

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Unprofitable.

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

The state of being disproportional.

In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.

To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Capable of being disproved or refuted.

Act of disproving; disproof.

To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

One who disproves or confutes.

Not to provide; to fail to provide.

To expunge.

See Disponge.

Without penal restraint; not punishable.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.

To disfurnish; to strip.

Want of provisions; /ack of food.

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.

State of being disputable.

Proneness to dispute.

One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.

Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible.

One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

Dispute; discussion.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting.

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.

To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.

To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.

One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.

Producing inquietude or uneasiness.

Tending to disquiet.

In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night.

State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment.

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness.

Causing uneasiness.

Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety.

A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.

Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.

Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.

Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.

Disquisitory.

Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.

To disarrange.

To degrade from rank.

To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.

To divest of reality; to make uncertain.

Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience.

The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight.

One who disregards.

Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.

Negligently; heedlessly.

Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.

To fail to remember; to forget.

A state of being in bad condition, and needing repair.

The state of being disreputable.

Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.

In a disreputable manner.

Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem.

To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

To show disrespect to.

Lack of respectability.

Not respectable; disreputable.

One who disrespects.

Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior.

Showing lack of respect; disrespectful.

To treat irreverently or with disrespect.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

One who, or that which, disrobes.

To unroof.

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

To put to rout.

To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.

In a disorderly manner.

Unruly; disorderly.

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

To break asunder; to rend.

Not continuous in time or space. Opposite of continuous.

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.

Disruption.

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.

in a state of sulky dissatisfaction.

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.

To unseat.

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.

Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection.