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DISIMPROVE

Definition: DISIMPROVE

DISIMPROVE

Intransitive verb

1. To grow worse; to deteriorate.

Transitive verb

1. To make worse; -- the opposite of improve.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: DISIMPROVE

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

German

  

verschlimmbessern (make worse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isimproveday

   

Ukrainian

  

погіршуватися (break down, degenerate, degrade, dwindle, slacken), погіршувати (adulterate, aggravate, degrade, deprave, deteriorate, impair, worsen, worst). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DISIMPROVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: improvised.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-m-o-p-r-s-v"

-1 letter: improvise.

-2 letters: disprove, improved, improves, misdrive, misdrove, presidio, prismoid, promised, provides.

-3 letters: devisor, devoirs, divisor, imposed, imposer, improve, improvs, ivories, misdoer, periods, pismire, primsie, privies, promise, provide, semipro, spiroid, verismo, viroids, visored, voiders.

-4 letters: dermis, devoir, dimers, divers, dopers, dopier, dories, dormie, drives, droves, idioms, imides, impose, improv, iodise, iodism, irides, irised, isomer, moires.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-m-o-p-r-s-v"
 

+2 letters: impoverished.

 

+3 letters: improvidences.

 

+4 letters: oversimplified.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISIMPROVE


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

44 49 53 49 4D 50 52 4F 56 45

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 01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#73 &#77 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0049 004D 0050 0052 004F 0056 0045

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

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

38435343475052495639

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Non-English Dictionaries with "DISIMPROVE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionнімкеня, німецький, німець

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

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


  

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