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Dissecting
- verb - cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
Dissenting
- verb - be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
- disagreeing, especially with a majority
- express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"
- withhold assent; "Several Republicans dissented"
Dissolving
- verb - become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
- become weaker; "The sound faded out"
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"
- cause to fade away; "dissolve a shot or a picture"
- cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
- cause to lose control emotionally; "The news dissolved her into tears"
- come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
- declare void;
- lose control emotionally; "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme"
- pass into a solution; "The sugar quickly dissolved
Dissuading
- verb - turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
Distancing
- verb - go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners"
- keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
Distending
- verb - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
- cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
- swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Distilling
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Distorting
- verb -
- affect as in thought or feeling;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- twist and press out of shape
Disturbing
- verb - causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- change the arrangement or position of
- damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"
- destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
Disuniting
- verb - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"