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.

The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet.

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 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.

Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

One who dissects; an anatomist.

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.

A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.

One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold.

A woman disseizes.

Disseizin.

The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation.

To conceal the real fact, motives, intention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.

One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.

That dissembles; hypocritical; false.

to spread around widely; to sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.

Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance; scattered widely.

serving to diffuse, disseminate, or disperse.

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.

The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent.

Dissension.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

The spirit or principles of dissenters.

To throw into a state of dissent.

Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. One who dissents.

disagreeing, especially with a majority.

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious.

Disagreeing; inconsistent.

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

See Disertly.

To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.