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Disfranchise

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.

disfranchised

deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.

Disfranchisement

The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

Disfriar

To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

Disfurnish

To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

Disfurnishment

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.

Disgage

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

Disgarnish

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.

Disgavel

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

Disglorify

To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity.

Disgorge

To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

Disgorgement

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.

Disgospel

To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel.

Disgrace

To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

Disgraceful

Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.

Disgregate

To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate.

Disgregation

The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

Disguise

A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

Disgust

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

disgusted

having a strong distaste from surfeit.

Disgustful

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.

Disgusting

That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.

Dish

To put in a dish, ready for the table.

Dishabille

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.

Dishaunt

To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.

Dishearten

To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

disheartened

made less hopeful or enthusiastic; as, their lack of interest disheartened the instructor.

disherison

The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinherison.

disherit

To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.

Disheritance

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.

Disheritor

One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Dishevel

To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.

dishevelled disheveled

Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair.

Dishful

As much as a dish holds when full.

Dishonest

To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.

Dishonor

To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

Dishonorable

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

Dishonorary

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.

Dishonorer

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Dishorn

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.

Dishorse

To dismount; to knock (a person) from a horse.

dishpan

a large pan for washing dishes.

Dishumor

To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.

dishware

eating and serving dishes collectively.

Dishwater

Water in which dishes have been washed.

dishy

good-looking; -- used of persons.

Disillusion

To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

Disillusionment

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

Disimpark

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park.

Disimprovement

Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth; specific features which are worse than former features; disimprovements in the new Windows operating system.

Disinclination

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.

Disincline

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

Disincorporate

Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.

Disinfect

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

disinfectant

That which disinfects, especially an agent for killing or removing the microorganisms which cause infection. Commonly used disinfectants are chlorine, sodium hypochlorite solution, hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol.

disinfection

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

disinfector

One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

disinflation

a reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure.

Disingenuous

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

Disinherit

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.

Disinheritance

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

Disinsure

To render insecure; to put in danger.

Disintegrable

Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.

Disintegrate

To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

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