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DISAFFIRM

Definitions: DISAFFIRM

DISAFFIRM

Transitive verb

1. To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

2. To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: DISAFFIRM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Negation

Disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant; revoke; (abrogate).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: DISAFFIRM

Language Translations for "DISAFFIRM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mohoj (abnegate, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, rat, refuse, repudiate, retract, set aside), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

反驳 (Disprove, Disproved, Disproving, rebut, Rebutted, Rebutting, refute, Refuted, Refuting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

popřít (deny, disavow, disclaim, disown). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellenkezõjét állítja. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengingkari (disavow, disown, negate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isaffirmday

   

Portuguese

  

revogar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, deprive, determine, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke), repudiar (abjure, disavow, dismissal, forswear, recant, reject, renounce, repudiate), contradizer (contradict, deny, gainsay), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), nega (abjure, challenge, deny, disavow, gainsay, impugn, negate, negative, repudiate, traverse), infirma (infirm, invalidate, quash, refute), anula (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отменять (abolish, abrogate, annul, back out, call off, cancel, defeat, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, revoked, revoking, undid, undone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

povući (draw off, keep back, pull, recall, retire, scratch, take, take back, withdraw), opovrgavati (disallow), odricati (negate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

testar (bequeath, endorse, indorse, make a will). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กล่าวแย้ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), karşı çıkmak (antagonize, argue against smth., be faced with, contravene, deprecate, except, face, go against, go counter to, interpose, mind, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, resist, run counter to, set against, traverse), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), aksini iddia etmek (argue against smth., contradict). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скасовувати (abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind, withdraw), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, demur, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DISAFFIRM

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISAFFIRM": disaffirmance, disaffirmances, disaffirmed, disaffirming, disaffirms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DISAFFIRM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disafirm, dissafirm, disulfiram. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DISAFFIRM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-i-i-m-r-s"

-1 letter: midriffs.

-2 letters: affirms, midairs, midriff.

-3 letters: affirm, disarm, draffs, midair.

-4 letters: amids, amirs, daffs, draff, drams, fairs, fards, farms, fiars, firms, imids, irids, maids, mairs, midis, miffs, radii, raffs, raids, riffs, simar.

-5 letters: aids, aims, airs, amid, amir, amis, arfs, arid, arms, daff, dais, dams, dims, dram, fads, fair, fard, farm, fiar, fids, firm, firs.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-f-f-i-i-m-r-s"
 

+1 letter: disaffirms.

 

+2 letters: disaffirmed.

 

+3 letters: disaffirming.

 

+4 letters: disaffirmance.

 

+5 letters: disaffirmances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISAFFIRM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 41 46 46 49 52 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .-    ..-.    ..-.    ..    .-.    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01000001 01000110 01000110 01001001 01010010 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#65 &#70 &#70 &#73 &#82 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0041 0046 0046 0049 0052 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384353354040435247

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Non-English Dictionaries with "DISAFFIRM"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, albán, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译kinez, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kínai, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Indonesian

indonezian, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, indonéz, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugál, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, román, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, spanyol, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Thai

พจนานุกรม泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, tailandês, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення乌克兰

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, angol, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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