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.

Injury; mischief.

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

To unsettle.

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.

To part; to separate.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance.

To free from shadow or shade.

To become unsheathed.

To dismiss from service on board ship.

To shiver or break in pieces.

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

In a dissident manner.

The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

The act of bursting or springing apart.

Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar.

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

To dissemble.

A dissembler.

A dissembler.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated.

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

Squandered; scattered.

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Tending to dissipate.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Lying apart.

Slander.

Slanderous.

Want of sociability; unsociableness.

Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

To render unsocial.

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

not connected or associated.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility.

With nerves unstrung; weak.

In a dissolute manner.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.