disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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(verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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(noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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disinclined | (adjective) unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval | - |
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disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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(noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
disinfection | (noun) treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
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disinfector | (noun) an apparatus for applying disinfectants. | - |
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disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
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disinflation | (noun) a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments | - |
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disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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disintegrable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: meltable |
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disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
(verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
(noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
(noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
(noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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(noun) lack of interest | - |
disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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disinterestedly | (adverb) without bias; without selfish motives | - |
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disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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(verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
(verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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