Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 66

Disglorifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disglorify.

Disglorify (v. t.) To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.]

Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. -- Milton.

Disglory (n.) Dishonor. [Obs.]

To the disglory of God's name. -- Northbrooke.

Disgorged (imp. & p. p.) of Disgorge.

Disgorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgorge.

Disgorge (v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. -- Hakluyt.

They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. -- Dryden.

Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

Disgorge (v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea. -- Milton.

Disgorge (v.) Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table" [syn: spill, shed, disgorge].

Disgorge (v.) Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down].

Disgorgement (n.) The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. -- Bp. Hall.

Disgorgement (n.) The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking].

Disgorgement (n.) (Law) (US) A situation in which a person or organization is forced to pay back money that they have made in an illegal way.

// Disagreement claims/ payments/ penalties.

// The SEC is seeking disagreement of the misappropriated funds.

Disgospel (v. i.) To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel.

Disgrace (n.) 恥辱,不名譽 The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

Disgrace (n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.

Disgrace (n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

Disgrace (n.) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

Disgraced (imp. & p. p.) of Disgrace.

Disgracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgrace.

Disgrace (v. t.) 使恥辱,使失體面 To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

Disgrace (v. t.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

Disgrace (v. t.) To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.

Disgrace (n.) A state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison" [syn: {shame}, {disgrace}, {ignominy}].

Disgrace (v.) Bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" [syn: {dishonor}, {disgrace}, {dishonour}, {attaint}, {shame}] [ant: {honor}, {honour}, {reward}].

Disgrace (v.) Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" [syn: {take down}, {degrade}, {disgrace}, {demean}, {put down}].

Disgrace (v.) Damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits the politicians" [syn: {discredit}, {disgrace}].

Disgrace (n.) [ U ] (B2) 恥辱,丟臉;不光彩的行為 Embarrassment and the loss of other people's respect, or behaviour that causes this.

// They were sent home in disgrace.

// He brought disgrace on the whole team by falsifying the results.

Be a disgrace (B2) 非常糟糕,太不像話 To be a very bad situation.

// Three families living in one room - it's a disgrace!

// [ + that ] It's a disgrace that the government spends so much on guns and so little on education.

Be a disgrace to sb/ sth (C2) 是…的恥辱 To be so bad or unacceptable that you make people lose respect for the group or activity you are connected to.

// You're a disgrace (to the family) - what a way to behave!

Disgrace (v.) [ T ] 使丟臉,使蒙羞,使沒面子 To make people stop respecting you or your family, team, etc. by doing something very bad.

// You have disgraced us all with your behaviour.

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

Disgracer (n.) One who disgraces.

Disgracious (a.) Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable.

Disgracive (a.) Disgracing.

Disgradation (n.) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.

Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.

Disgregate (v. t.) To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate.

Disgregation (n.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

Disgression (n.) 離題;脫軌 A temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing.

Let's return to the main topic after that brief digression.

Compare: Departure

Departure (n.) [Mass noun] The action of leaving, especially to start a journey.

The day of departure.

[Count noun ]She made a hasty departure.

Departure (n.) [Count noun ] A deviation from an accepted, prescribed, or usual course of action.

The album is not a radical departure from the band's previous work.

Departure (n.) [Nautical ] The amount of a ship's change of longitude.

Since a ship rarely sails for any length of time due east or due west, the difference in departure cannot ordinarily be found as in ordinary sailing.

Therefore, in plane sailing, the departure between two places is measured generally on that parallel of latitude which lies midway between the parallels of the two places.

Compare: Nautical

Nautical (a.) 海上的;船員的;船舶的;航海的 Of or concerning navigation, sailors, or the sea; maritime.

Nautical charts.

Disgruntle (v. t.) To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.

Disguised (imp. & p. p.) of Disguise.

Disguising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disguise.

Disguise (v. t.) 把……假扮起來;把……喬裝起來 [+as];掩飾,隱瞞 To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. -- Macaulay.

Disguise (v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

All God's angels come to us disguised. -- Lowell.

Disguise (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before Igave them the ship. -- Spectator.

Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.

Disguise (n.) [C] [U] 假扮,偽裝,用作偽裝的東西;假裝;掩飾 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.

There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. -- Addison.

Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

That eye which glances through all disguises. -- D. Webster.

Disguise (n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication. -- Shak.

Disguise (n.) A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]

Disguise was the old English word for a masque. -- B. Jonson.

Disguise (n.) An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: disguise, camouflage].

Disguise (n.) Any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity.

Disguise (n.) The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; "he is a master of disguise" [syn: disguise, camouflage].

Disguise (v.) Make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank" [syn: disguise, mask].

Disguised (a.) 化過妝的,偽裝的 Having an appearance that hides the true form.

// In Shakespeare's  play "Twelfth Night" , Duke Orsino falls in love with the disguised Viola.

// In the book, the author gives a thinly (= only slightly) disguised account of his own early teaching experiences.

Disguisedly (adv.) In disguise.

Disguisedness (n.) The state of being disguised.

Disguisement (n.) Disguise. [R.] -- Spenser.

Disguiser (n.) One who, or that which, disguises.

Disguiser (n.) One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker.

Disguising (n.) A masque or masquerade.

Disgusted (imp. & p. p.) of Disgust.

Disgusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgust.

Disgust (v. t.) (v. t.) 使厭惡,使惡心 (v. i.) 令人厭惡 To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

Disgust (n.) [U] 厭惡,惡心 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.

Disgust (n.) Strong feelings of dislike.

Disgust (v.) Fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: {disgust}, {gross out}, {revolt}, {repel}].

Disgust (v.) Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: {disgust}, {revolt}, {nauseate}, {sicken}, {churn up}].

Disgustful (a.) Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.

Disgustfulness (n.) The state of being disgustful.

Disgusting (a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.

Dish (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

Dish (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods".

Dish (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

Dish (n.) A hollow place, as in a field.

Dish (n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

Dish (n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Dished (imp. & p. p.) of Dish.

Dishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dish.

Dish (v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.

Dish (v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

Dishabilitate (v. t.) To disqualify.

Dishabille (n.) An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.

Dishabit (v. t.) To dislodge.

Dishabited (p. a.) Rendered uninhabited.

Dishabituate (v. t.) To render unaccustomed.

Dishable (v. t.) To disable.

Dishable (v. t.) To disparage.

Dishallow (v. t.) To make unholy; to profane.

Disharmonious (a.) Unharmonious; discordant.

Disharmony (n.) Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.

Dishaunt (v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.

Dishcloth (n.) A cloth used for washing dishes.

Dishclout (n.) A dishcloth.

Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.

Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearten.

Disheartening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearten.

Dishearten (v. t.) 使…氣餒,使…沮喪 To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. -- Macaulay.

Syn: To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.

Dishearten (v.) Take away the enthusiasm of [syn: {dishearten}, {put off}] [ant: {cheer}, {embolden}, {hearten}, {recreate}].

Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Disheartenment (n.) The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: discouragement, disheartenment, dismay].

Disheartenment (n.) A communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted.

Disheir (v. t.) To disinherit. [Obs.] -- Dryden.

Dishelm (v. t.) To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic]

Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. -- Tennyson.

Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. -- Bp. Hall.

Disherison (n.) Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. Vide Disinherison.

Disherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disherit.

Disheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disherit.

Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Disheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.

Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Disheritor (n.) One who disinherits, or puts another out of his freehold. Obsolete.

Disheveled (imp. & p. p.) of Dishevel.

Dishevelled () of Dishevel.

Disheveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishevel.

Dishevelling () of Dishevel.

Dishevel (v. t.) 使(頭髮)蓬鬆;弄亂 To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. -- Spenser.

Dishevel (v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.

Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind. -- Cowper.

Dishevel (v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair. [R.] -- Sir T. Herbert.

Dishevel (v.) Disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair" [syn: tousle, dishevel, tangle].

Dishevele (p. p. & a.) Disheveled. [Obs.]

Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. -- Chaucer. adj. 1.; .

Syn: disheveled, ungroomed. disheveled

Disheveled (a.) (人)頭髮凌亂的;衣冠不整的;(頭髮、服裝等)不整的,凌亂的 Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair.

Disheveled (a.) Having the hair in loose disorder.

The dancing maidens are disheveled M[ae]nads. -- J. A. Symonds.

Disheveled (a.) In disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers [syn: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled].

Disheveled (a.) Not neat or tidy.

Disheveled (a.) Marked by disorder or disarray <disheveled hair>.

Dishfuls (n. pl. ) of Dishful.

Dishful (n.) As much as a dish holds when full.

Dishful (n.) The quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of rice" [syn: dish, dishful].

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