| diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissent | (verb) withhold assent | - |
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| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| dissolve | (verb) pass into a solution | - |
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| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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