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Dissects
- 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"
Disseize
- - To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
Dissents
- noun - (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; "he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion"
- a difference of opinion
- be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
- express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"
- the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- withhold assent; "Several Republicans dissented"
Disserve
- - To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
Dissever
- verb - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
Dissolve
- noun - (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out
- 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 te
Dissuade
- verb - turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
Distaffs
- noun - the sphere of work by women
- the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
Distally
- adverb - far from the center; "the bronchus is situated distally"
Distance
- noun - a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"
- a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
- go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners"
- indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"
- keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
- size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
- the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
- the property created by the space between two objects or points