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Dissemble

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

Dissembler

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

Disseminate

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.

disseminated

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

dissemination

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.

Disseminator

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

Dissension

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.

Dissensious

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.

Dissent

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

Dissentaneous

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

Dissenter

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

Dissentient

Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. One who dissents.

dissenting

disagreeing, especially with a majority.

Dissentious

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

Dissert

To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

Dissertate

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

Dissertation

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

Dissertator

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Disserve

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

Disserviceable

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

Dissettlement

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

Disship

To dismiss from service on board ship.

Dissidence

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

Dissident

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

Dissilient

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

Dissimilar

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

Dissimilarity

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

Dissimile

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

dissimulating

concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

dissimulation

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

Dissipable

Capable of being scattered or dissipated.

dissipate

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

Dissipate

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.

Dissipation

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

Dissipativity

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

Dissociable

Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

Dissocial

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

dissociate

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

Dissociation

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

Dissolubility

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

Dissoluble

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

Dissoluteness

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

Dissolution

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

Dissolvable

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

Dissolve

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

dissolved

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

dissolvent

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

Dissolvent

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

Dissolver

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

Dissonance

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

Dissonant

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

Dissuade

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

Dissuasion

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

Dissuasive

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.

Dissyllabic

Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

Dissympathy

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.

Distad

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

Distaff

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

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