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Disowning
- verb - cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
- prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
- refusal to acknowledge as one's own
- Rejects
Disparage
- verb - Cast aspersions, run someone's character down
- express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts"
- slight
- to put down
Disparate
- adjective - fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
- including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"
Disparity
- noun - inequality or difference in some respect
Dispauper
- - To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.
Dispelled
- verb - force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
- to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
Dispender
- - One who dispends or expends; a steward.
Dispensed
- verb - administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
- distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions; "medicines dispensed to the sick"
- give or apply (medications)
- grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task"
Dispenser
- noun - a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts
- a person who dispenses