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DISCOMMEND

Definition: DISCOMMEND

DISCOMMEND

Transitive verb

1. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.

2. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISCOMMEND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DISCOMMEND

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

Disapprobation

Dispraise, discommend, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn; (find guilty).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DISCOMMEND

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

Albanian

  

qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), nuk miratoj (disapprove, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, frown up), ia kthej mendjen. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nesouhlasit (be at odds with, disaccord, disagree, disapprove, discountenance, dissent, object). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kifogásol (animadvert, expostulate, object to, plead, take exception to, to disapprove, to find fault with, to object, to object to sg, to pass strictures on, to pass strictures upon, to rebuke, to remonstrate, to traverse). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jeh-voylley (censure, dishonour, dispraise). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscommendday

   

Romanian

  

dezaproba (censure, condemn, deprecate, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, reject, reprobate), nu fi de acord cu (dissent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

не рекомендовать, не одобрять (disapprove, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, not to hold with, object). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ogilla (be aversed to, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, dispraise, frown on, quash, scorn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DISCOMMEND

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISCOMMEND": discommended, discommending, discommends. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DISCOMMEND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dascombe. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISCOMMEND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-i-m-m-n-o-s"

-2 letters: commends, demonism, miscoded.

-3 letters: codeins, commend, commies, demonic, desmoid, discoed, domines, emodins, incomes, medicos, mesonic, middens, miscode, misdone, noddies, secondi.

-4 letters: codein, codens, coined, commie, conies, cosied, cosine, demons, denims, desmid, didoes, dimmed, diodes, disced, domine, donsie, emodin, eonism, icones, income, medico, medics, midden, mimeos, minced, minces, minded, modems, mondes, monied, monies, monism.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-i-m-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: discommends.

 

+2 letters: discommended.

 

+3 letters: discommending.

 

+4 letters: decommissioned.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISCOMMEND


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

44 49 53 43 4F 4D 4D 45 4E 44

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 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0043 004F 004D 004D 0045 004E 0044

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

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

38435337494747394838

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Non-English Dictionaries with "DISCOMMEND"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, albánský, albán, Albaneagh, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, alban

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, tjeck

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmaïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, ungrare

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtgjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, från ön man

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, rumunský, rumunština, román, Roomainagh, român, румынский, румын, rumänsk

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеruština, ruský, orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ryss

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, švédský, švédština, svéd, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, anglicky, angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, английский, engelsk
 


INDEX

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


  

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