Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 59
Disavouch (v. t.) To disavow. [R.] -- Daniel.
Disavowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disavow
Disavowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disavow
Disavow (v. t.) 否認，推翻（前言）；拒絕接受 To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
A solemn promise made and disavowed. -- Dryden.
Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. -- Ford.
Disavow (v.) Refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" [ant: {avouch}, {avow}].
Disavowal (n.) 否認，否定；拒絕 The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. -- Richardson.
Disavowal (n.) Denial of any connection with or knowledge of [syn: {disavowal}, {disclaimer}].
Disavowance (n.) Disavowal. [Obs.] -- South.
Disavower (n.) One who disavows.
Disavowment (n.) Disavowal. [R.] -- Wotton.
Disbanded (imp. & p. p.) of Disband
Disbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disband
Disband (v. t.) 解散；遣散 To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. -- Knolles.
Disband (v. t.) To divorce. [Obs.]
And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. -- Milton.
Disband (v. i.) 解散；遣散；散去 To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.
When both rocks and all things shall disband. -- Herbert.
Human society would in a short space disband. -- Tillotson.
Disband (v.) Cause to break up or cease to function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization".
Disband (v.) Stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting" [syn: disband, dissolve].
Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding.
Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding; "the orchestra faced the prospect of disbandment".
Disbarred (imp. & p. p.) of Disbar
Disbarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbar
Disbar (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Disbark (v. t.) To disembark.
Disbark (v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.
Disbarment (n.) Act of disbarring.
Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
Disbecome (v. t.) To misbecome.
Disbelief (n.) The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.
Disbelieved (imp. & p. p.) of Disbelieve
Disbelieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbelieve
Disbelieve (v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Disbeliever (n.) One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.
Disbench (v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.
Disbench (v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.
Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.
Disbind (v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.
Disblame (v. t.) To clear from blame.
Disbodied (a.) Disembodied.
Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.
Disbowel (v. t.) To disembowel.
Disbranch (v.) To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.
Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.
Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
Disburden (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
Disburgeon (v. t.) To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.
Disbursed (imp. & p. p.) of Disburse
Disbursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburse
Disburse (v. t.) 支付，支出，分配 To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. -- Macaulay.
{Disbursing officer}, 出納員；出納主管；支付官 An officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.
Disburse (v.) Expend, as from a fund [syn: {disburse}, {pay out}].
Disbursement (n.) 支付，支出；支付款 The act of disbursing or paying out.
The disbursement of the public moneys. -- U. S. Statutes.
Disbursement (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
Disbursement (n.) Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: {expense}, {disbursal}, {disbursement}].
Disbursement (n.) The act of spending or disbursing money [syn: {spending}, {disbursement}, {disbursal}, {outlay}].
Disburser (n.) 支出者 One who disburses money.
Disburthened (imp. & p. p.) of Disburthen
Disburthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburthen
Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.
Disc (n.) A flat round plate
Disc (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
Discage (v. t.) To uncage.
Discal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from.
Discalceated (a.) Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.
Discalced (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.
Discalceation (n.) The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.
Discamp (v. t.) To drive away from a camp. [Obs.]
Discamp (v. i.) Decamp.
Discandy (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
Discant (n.) See Descant, n.
Discapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.
Discarded (imp. & p. p.) of Discard
Discarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discard
Discard (v. t.) (Card Playing) 拋棄，摒棄，丟棄；【牌】擲出（無用的牌）；墊出（另一花色牌張） To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. -- Swift.
Discard (v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
A man discards the follies of boyhood. -- I. Taylor.
Syn: To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.
Discard (v. i.) 【牌】去牌；墊牌 To make a discard.
Discard (n.) (Card Playing) 拋棄，丟棄 [U] The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Discard (n.) Anything that is cast aside or discarded.
Discard (n.) (Cards) The act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit.
Discard (n.) Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable [syn: discard, throwing away].
Discard (v.) Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away].
Discardure (n.) Rejection; dismissal.
Discarnate (a.) Stripped of flesh.
Discase (v. t.) To strip; to undress. -- Shak.
Discase (v.) Get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog].
Discede (v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.]
I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. -- Fuller.
Discept (v. i.) To debate; to discuss. [R.]
One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. -- R. Browning.
Disceptation (n.) Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic]
Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. -- Strype.
Disceptation (n.) A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing].
Disceptator (n.) [L.] One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] -- Cowley.
Discerned (imp. & p. p.) of Discern
Discerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discern
Discern (v. t.) [W] 分辨，識別；看出，察覺到 [+that] [+wh-]； 認識，領悟 To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. -- Boyle.
A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Discern (v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. -- Prov. vii. 7.
Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. -- Beattie.
I wake, and I discern the truth. -- Tennyson.
Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}.
Discern (v. i.) 辨明，分清 [W] To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. -- Jonah iv. 11.
Discern (v. i.) To make cognizance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Discern (v.) Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: {spot}, {recognize}, {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick out}, {make out}, {tell apart}].
Discernance (n.) Discernment.
Discerner (n.) One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
A great observer and discerner of men's natures. -- Clarendon.
Discernible (a.) 可識別的 Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Perceptible; distinguishable; apparent; visible; evident; manifest.
Discernible (a.) Perceptible by the senses or intellect; "things happen in the earth and sky with no discernible cause"; "the newspaper reports no discernible progress in the negotiations"; "the skyline is easily discernible even at a distance of several miles" [syn: {discernible}, {discernable}] [ant: {indiscernible}].
Discernible (a.) Capable of being perceived clearly; "an essay with a meaning that was not always discernible".
Discernible (a.) Capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"; "an observable change in behavior" [syn: {discernible}, {evident}, {observable}].
Discernibleness (n.) The quality of being discernible.
Discernibly (adv.) In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.
Discerning (a.) 有識別力的；眼光敏銳的；discern 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. -- Macaulay.
Discerning (a.) Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant: {undiscerning}].
Discerning (a.) Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: {discerning}, {discreet}].
Discerning (a.) Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {apprehensive}, {discerning}].
Discerning (a.) Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color".
Discerningly (adv.) In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. -- Garth.
Discernment (n.) [U] 洞察；識別；洞察力；識別能力；敏銳 The act of discerning.
Discernment (n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
Syn: Judgment; acuteness; discrimination; penetration; sagacity; insight. -- {Discernment}, {Penetration}, {Discrimination}. Discernment is keenness and accuracy of mental vision; penetration is the power of seeing deeply into a subject in spite of everything that intercepts the view; discrimination is a capacity of tracing out minute distinctions and the nicest shades of thought. A discerning man is not easily misled; one of a penetrating mind sees a multitude of things which escape others; a discriminating judgment detects the slightest differences.
Discernment (n.) The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: {understanding}, {apprehension}, {discernment}, {savvy}].
Discernment (n.) Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: {taste}, {appreciation}, {discernment}, {perceptiveness}].
Discernment (n.) Perception of that which is obscure [syn: {discernment}, {perceptiveness}].
Discernment (n.) The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations [syn: {sagacity}, {sagaciousness}, {judgment}, {judgement}, {discernment}].
Discernment (n.) The trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment" [syn: {discretion}, {discernment}].
Discerp (v. t.) 扯碎 To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] -- Stukeley.
Discerp (v. t.) To separate; to disunite. [R.] -- Bp. Hurd. Discerpibility.
Discerp (v.) Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" [syn: {dismember}, {take apart}, {discerp}].
Discerp (v.) Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp}, {sever}, {lop}].
Discerpibility (n.) Alt. of Discerptibility
Discerptibility (n.) Capability or liableness to be discerped.
Discerpible (a.) Alt. of Discerptible
Discerptible (a.) 可撕碎的 Capable of being discerped. [R.]
Discerption (n.) 分裂 The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts. -- Bp. Hall.
Discerptive (a.) Tending to separate or disunite parts. -- Encys.Dict.
Discession (n.) Departure. [Obs.]