Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 69
Dismaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismay
Dismay (v. t.) 使驚慌，使沮喪，使氣餒 To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Dismay (v. t.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
Dismay (v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
Dismay (n.) [ U ] 驚慌，沮喪，氣餒 Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. (Antonym) Cheer.
Dismay (n.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Dismay (n.) The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: {discouragement}, {disheartenment}, {dismay}].
Dismay (n.) Fear resulting from the awareness of danger [syn: {alarm}, {dismay}, {consternation}].
Dismay (v.) Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: {depress}, {deject}, {cast down}, {get down}, {dismay}, {dispirit}, {demoralize}, {demoralise}] [ant: {elate}, {intoxicate}, {lift up}, {pick up}, {uplift}].
Dismay (v.) Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: {dismay}, {alarm}, {appal}, {appall}, {horrify}].
Dismay (n.) [ U ] (C2) 沮喪，灰心，失望 A feeling of unhappiness and disappointment.
// Aid workers were said to have been filled with dismay by the appalling conditions that the refugees were living in.
The fans watched in/ with dismay as their team lost 42–11.
She discovered, to her dismay, that her exam was a whole month earlier than she'd expected.
Dismayedness (n.) A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
Dismayful (a.) Terrifying. -- Spenser.
Disme (n.) A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. -- Ayliffe.
Dismembered (imp. & p. p.) of Dismember
Dismembering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismember
Dismember (v. t.) 肢解；分割 To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. -- Pope.
A society lacerated and dismembered. -- Gladstone.
By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. -- Buckle.
Dismember (v. t.) To deprive of membership. [Obs.]
They were dismembered by vote of the house. -- R. North.
Syn: To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.
Dismember (v.) Separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist".
Dismember (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].
Dismemberment (n.) 肢解；解體；分割The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; mutilation; division; separation.
The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. -- Macaulay.
Dismemberment (n.) The removal of limbs; being cut to pieces [syn: dismemberment, taking apart].
Dismettled (a.) Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.
Dismissed (imp. & p. p.) of Dismiss
Dismissing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismiss
Dismiss (v. t.) 解散；消除，不考慮，免…的職，解雇，開除；遣散 To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
Dismiss (v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
Dismiss (v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
Dismiss (n.) Dismission.
Dismiss (v.) (Not take seriously) (C1) [ T ] 對…不予理會，摒棄，（從頭腦中）去除 To decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering.
// I think he'd dismissed me as an idiot within five minutes of meeting me.
// Let's not just dismiss the idea before we've even thought about it.
// Just dismiss those thoughts from your mind - they're crazy and not worth thinking about.
Dismiss (v.) (End job) (C1) [ T often passive ] （尤指因做錯事）使免職，將…解職，解僱 To remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong.
// He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.
Dismiss (v.) (Send away) [ T ] 遣散；解散 To formally ask or order someone to leave.
// The professor dismissed the class early because she had a meeting.
Dismiss (v.) (Send away) [ T ] （常指法官因證據不足而） 駁回，不受理 When a judge dismisses a court case, he or she formally stops the trial, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty.
// The defending lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed.
Dismissal (n.) [U ] 解散；打發走；解僱；免職（令）；開除；【律】駁回訴訟；撤回訴訟 Dismission; discharge.
Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it,
upon pain of immediate dismissal. -- Motley.
Dismissal (n.) A judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal, dismissal].
Dismissal (n.) Official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, dismission, pink slip].
Dismissal (n.) Permission to go; the sending away of someone.
Dismissal (n.) The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking].
Dismission (n.) 免職；解雇；退去；解散 The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.
Dismission (n.) Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.
Dismission (n.) Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
Dismission (n.) Official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, dismission, pink slip].
Dismission (n.) The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking].
Dismissive (a.) Giving dismission.
Dismissive (a.) 表示輕視的 Showing indifference or disregard; "a dismissive shrug"; "the firm is dismissive of the competitor's product"; "'chronic fatigue syndrome' was known by the dismissive term 'housewife syndrome'".
Dismissive (a.) Stopping to associate with; "they took dismissive action after the third violation".
Dismortaged (imp. & p. p.) of Dismortgage
Dismortgaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismortgage
Dismortgage (v. t.) To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Dismounted (imp. & p. p.) of Dismount
Dismounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismount
Dismount (v. i.) 卸除；卸下 To come down; to descend. [Poetic].
But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. -- Spenser.
Dismount (v. i.) (使)下馬 To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
Dismounted from his authority. -- Barrow.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
Dismount (v. t.) (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.
Dismount (n.) The act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.).
Dismount (v.) Alight from (a horse) [syn: unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down].
Disnaturalize (v. t.) To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. -- Locke.
Disnatured (a.) Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Disobedience (n.) 不服從，違抗；違反 [U] [（+to）] Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. -- Tillotson.
Disobedience (n.) The failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance].
Disobedience (n.) The trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: obedience].
Disobedience, () The want of submission to the orders of a superior.
Disobedience, () In the army, disobedience is a misdemeanor.
Disobedience, () For disobedience to parents, children may be punished; and apprentices may be imprisoned for disobedience to the lawful commands of their master. Vide Correction.
Disobedience (n.). The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
Disobediency (n.) Disobedience.
Disobedient (a.) 不服從的，不孝的，違背 Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
This disobedient spirit in the colonies. -- Burke.
Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. -- 1 Kings xiii. 26.
Disobedient (a.) Not yielding.
Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. -- E. Darwin.
Disobedient (a.) Not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children" [ant: obedient].
Disobedient (a.) Unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly].
Disobediently (adv.) 不服從地 In a disobedient manner.
Disobediently (adv.) In a disobedient manner; "he went ahead disobediently and did what his supervisor had warned him not to do" [ant: obediently, yieldingly].
Disobeisance (n.) Disobedience. [Obs.] -- E. Hall.
Disobeisant (a.) Disobedient. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disobeyed (imp. & p. p.) of Disobey
Disobeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disobey
Disobey (v. t.) 違反，不服從 Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.
Not to disobey her lord's behest. -- Tennyson.
Disobey (v. i.) To refuse or
neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
He durst not know how to disobey. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Disobey (v.) Refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" [ant: obey].
Disobeyer (n.) One who disobeys.
Disobligation (n.) 擺脫職責（或責任、義務）；[古語 ] 得罪；不施惠 The act of disobliging.
Disobligation (n.) A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.
Disobligation (n.) Release from obligation. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disobligatory (a.) Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." -- Charles I.
Disobligatory (a.) Not obligatory.
Compare: Obligatory
Obligatory (a.) 義不容辭的；有義務的；必須的；必修的 Required by a legal, moral, or other rule; compulsory.
‘Use of seat belts in cars is now obligatory.’
Obligatory (a.) (Of a ruling) Having binding force.
‘A sovereign whose laws are obligatory.’
Obligatory (a.) [Humorous] So customary or routine as to be expected of everyone or on every occasion.
‘After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business.’
Compare: Obligation
Obligation (n.) （道義上或法律上的）義務；責任 [C] [U] [（+to）] [+to-v] ；恩惠 [C] [（+to/ toward）] An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.
[With infinitive ]‘I have an obligation to look after her.’
Obligation (n.) The condition of being morally or legally bound to do something.
‘They are under no obligation to stick to the scheme.’
Obligation (n.) A debt of gratitude for a service or favor.
‘She didn't want to be under an obligation to him.’
Obligation (n.) [Law] A binding agreement committing a person to a payment or other action.
‘In the absence of any promise, agreement or obligation to make the payment when he acquired, took possession of or used the money, he had given no consideration within the meaning of the Act.’
Disobliged (imp. & p. p.) of Disoblige
Disobliging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disoblige
Disoblige (v. t.) 不滿足……的願望；悖（某人）意願 To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. -- South.
My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. -- Addison.
Disoblige (v. t.) To release from obligation. [Obs.]
Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. -- Milton.
Disoblige (v.) To cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother].
Disoblige (v.) Ignore someone's wishes [ant: accommodate, oblige].
Compare: Contravene
Contravene (v. t.) 與……相抵觸；違反（法律等）；反駁；否認 Violate the prohibition or order of (a law, treaty, or code of conduct).
‘This would contravene the rule against hearsay.’
Contravene (v. t.) Conflict with (a right, principle, etc.), especially to its detriment.
‘This contravened Washington's commitment to its own proposal.’
Disobligement (n.) Release from obligation. [Obs.]
Disobliger (n.) One who disobliges.
Disobliging (a.) Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.
Disobliging (a.) Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] --Cov. of Tongue. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n.
Disoblige (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Disobliged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disobliging.] To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. -- South.
My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. -- Addison.
Disoblige (v. t.) To release from obligation. [Obs.]
Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. -- Milton.
Disobliging (a.) Intentionally unaccommodating; "the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging" [syn: disobliging, uncooperative].
Disoccident (v. t.) To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] -- Marvell.
Disoccupation (n.) The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]
Disopinion (n.) Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] -- Bp. Reynolds.
Disoppilate (v. t.) To open. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Disorb (v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. -- Shak.
Disord (n.) Disorder. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Disordeined (a.) Inordinate; irregular; vicious. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disorder (n.) 混亂，無秩序 [U]； 騷亂，動亂 [C] [U] Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
Disorder (n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. -- Pope.
Disorder (n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. -- Shak.
Disorder (n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." -- Locke.
Syn: Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease.
Disordered (imp. & p. p.) of Disorder
Disordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disorder
Disorder (v. t.) 使混亂；擾亂；使紊亂，使失調；使不適 To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. -- Burke.
The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disorder (v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. -- Macaulay.
Disorder (v. t.) To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
Disorder (n.) A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine
for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" [syn: disorder, upset].
Disorder (n.) A condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" [syn: disorderliness, disorder] [ant: order, orderliness].
Disorder (n.) A disturbance of the peace or of public order [ant: order].
Disorder (v.) Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder].
Disorder (v.) Bring disorder to [syn: disorder, disarray] [ant: order].
Disordered (a.) 混亂的，雜亂的；錯亂的，失調的，生病的 Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.
Disordered (a.) Disorderly. [Obs.] -- Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
Disordered (a.) Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset].
Disordered (a.) Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected].
Disordered (a.) Not arranged in order [syn: disordered, unordered] [ant: ordered].
Disorderliness (n.) 混亂，雜亂，無秩序 [U] The state of being disorderly.
Disorderliness (n.) A condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" [syn: disorderliness, disorder] [ant: order, orderliness].
Disorderliness (n.) Rowdy behavior [syn: rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness].
Disorderliness (n.) Untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) [syn: disarray, disorderliness].
Disorderly (a.) 混亂的，雜亂的，無秩序的；目無法紀的；騷動的 Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
Disorderly (a.) Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
Disorderly (a.) Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.
Disorderly (a.) (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.
Syn: Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious.
Disorderly (adv.) 雜亂地，無秩序地 In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.
Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. -- 2 Thess. iii. 6.
Savages fighting disorderly with stones. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Disorderly (a.) Undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct" [ant: orderly].
Disorderly (a.) In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy].
Disorderly (a.) Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic, disorderly].
Disordinance (n.) Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disordinate (a.) Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." -- Prynne.
Disordinately (adv.) Inordinately. [Obs.] -- E. Hall.
Disordination (n.) The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Disorganization (n.) The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
Disorganization (n.) The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government.
The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disorganization (n.) A condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted [syn: disorganization, disorganisation, disarrangement].
Disorganization (n.) The disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion; "the disorganization of the enemy troops by a flank attack" [syn: disorganization, disorganisation].
Disorganized (imp. & p. p.) of Disorganize
Disorganizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disorganize
Disorganize (v. t.) To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.
Lyford .
. . attempted to disorganize the church. -- Eliot (1809).
Disorganize (v.) Remove the organization from [syn:
disorganize, disorganise] [ant: organise, organize].
Disorganizer (n.) One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.
Disorient (v. t.) To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings. [R.] -- Bp. Warburton.
Disorient (v. t.) To cause (a person) to lose one's sense of direction; to cause to lose one's bearings or way; as, the tourist was disoriented by the winding and narrow streets.
Disorient (v. t.) (Psychiatry) to cause one to lose one's sense of time or place, or of one's own personal identity.
Disorient (v. t.) To confuse (a person) by changing or removing something which has served as a standard or guide to action; as, workers were rendered unemployed and disoriented by the rapid changes in the markets.
Disorient (v.) Cause to be lost or disoriented [syn: disorient, disorientate] [ant: orient, orientate].
Disorientate (v. t.) To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [R.]
Disorientate (v.) Cause to be lost or disoriented [syn: disorient, disorientate] [ant: orient, orientate].
Disowned (imp. & p. p.) of Disown