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DISSERVE

Definition: DISSERVE

DISSERVE

Transitive verb

1. To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: DISSERVE

English words defined with "DISSERVE": Di/////, Disserving. (references)

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Modern Translation: DISSERVE

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

Arabic 

  

‏أعاق (baulk, clog, fix, hamper, obstacle, obstruct, traverse). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

навреждам на (harm, wrong), правя лоша услуга на. (various references)

   

Czech

  

chovat se špatnì k. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rosszul szolgál. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isserveday

   

Portuguese

  

dissertação (discourse, essay, excursus, reasoning, theme, thesis, tractate, treatise), desservir. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

face un prost serviciu (take away). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оказать плохую услугу. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

činiti lošu uslugu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perjudicar (damage, handicap, harm, hurt, impair, injure, penalize, prejudice, scathe). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skada (blight, corrupt, corruption, crock, damage, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, ill, impair, injure, injury, insult, loss, mischief, prejudice, riddle). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

завдавати непри"мностей, прибирати зі стола. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DISSERVE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISSERVE": disserved, disserves. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DISSERVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disadva, diserve, disirve, Disser, Fiserve, Misserver. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISSERVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: devisers, dissever.

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

-1 letter: derives, desires, deviser, devises, diverse, resides, revised, revises.

-2 letters: derive, desire, devise, dieses, divers, drives, eiders, reived, reives, reside, resids, revise, seders, seised, seiser, series, served, serves, severs, sieved, sieves, sirees, sivers, versed, verses, viseed.

-3 letters: deers, diver, dives, drees, dress, dries, drive, eider, erses, redes, reeds, reive, resid, rides, rises, rived, rives.

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

+1 letter: dervishes, desilvers, disserved, disserves, dissevers, oversides.

 

+2 letters: advertises, degressive, depressive, deservings, detersives, digressive, dispersive, disservice, dissevered, drivenness, driverless, fervidness, gravesides, overissued, redissolve, riversides, servitudes, silverside, supervised.

 

+3 letters: adversaries, adversities, advertisers, depressives, discoverers, discoveries, disservices, dissevering, diverseness, diversifies, diversities, overdesigns, overstrides, rediscovers, redissolved, redissolves, semidwarves, silversides, silverweeds, verdigrises, vinedresser.

 

+4 letters: adenoviruses, adversatives, degressively, depressively, derisiveness, digressively, disbelievers, dispersively, disseverance, disseverment, diversifiers, divestitures, drivennesses, fervidnesses, overdressing, screwdrivers, shirtsleeved, unsupervised, vinedressers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISSERVE


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

44 49 53 53 45 52 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 01010011 01000101 01010010 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#82 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0053 0045 0052 0056 0045

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

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

3843535339525639

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INDEX

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


  

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