| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| dispersed | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: spread |
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| dispersion | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dissemination |
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| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: distribution |
| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: scattering |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| dispiritedly | (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: hopelessly |
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| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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| (noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
| (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
| (noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
| display | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: exhibit, showing |
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| (noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: presentation |
| (noun) an electronic device that represents information in visual form | Synonyms: video display |
| (noun) exhibiting openly in public view | - |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) behavior that makes your feelings public | - |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| displeased | (adjective) not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure | - |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| displeasingly | (adverb) in a displeasing manner | - |
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| displeasure | (noun) the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something | - |
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| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| disposable | (adjective) designed to be disposed of after use | - |
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| (adjective) free or available for use or disposition | - |
| (noun) an item that can be disposed of after it has been used | - |
| disposal | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposition |
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| (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: administration |
| (noun) a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage | Synonyms: electric pig, garbage disposal |
| (noun) the power to use something or someone | - |
| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| disposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, given, minded, tending |
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| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: fain, inclined, prepared |
| disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
| (noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| dispossessed | (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: homeless, roofless |
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| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| disproof | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: falsification, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
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| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: falsification, refutation |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| disproportional | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportionate |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| disproportionately | (adverb) to a disproportionate degree | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner which is out of proportion | - |
| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| disputable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: debatable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, moot |
| disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| disputatiously | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: argumentatively |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| dispute | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: contravention |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference, difference of opinion |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disputed | (adjective) subject to disagreement and debate | - |
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| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| disqualified | (adjective) disqualified by law or rule or provision | - |
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| (adjective) barred from competition for violation of rules | - |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquiet | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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| (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| disquieted | (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: distressed, disturbed, upset, worried |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| disquietingly | (adverb) in a disquieting manner | - |
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| disquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: edginess, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| disregard | (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: neglect |
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| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: ignore, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, ignore, snub |
| disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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| disregarding | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregardless, irrespective, no matter, regardless |
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| disregardless | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, irrespective, no matter, regardless |
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| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| disreputability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputableness, unrespectability |
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| disreputable | (adjective) lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance | - |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| disreputably | (adverb) in a disreputable manner | - |
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| disrepute | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
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| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| disrupted | (adjective) marked by breaks or gaps | - |
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| disruption | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: perturbation |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, gap, interruption |
| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: dislocation |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| disruptively | (adverb) in a disruptive manner | - |
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| diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissatisfied | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: disgruntled |
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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 | - |
| dissected | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: cleft |
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| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| 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 |
| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |