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Definitions: Indispose |
IndisposeVerb1. Make unwilling. 2. Make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you". 3. Cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indispose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
Note: Indispose \In`dis*pose"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Indisposed; present participle verb or noun Indisposing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: IndisposeSynonyms: disincline (v), disqualify (v), unfit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: dispose (v), qualify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissuasion | Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Indispose |
| English words defined with "indispose": Indisposing. (references) |
Expression using "indispose": indispose towards. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
indispose | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "indispose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i prish qejfin (fret), telendis (bring discredit upon smb., give a great deal of trouble), sëmur lehtë, çaftësoj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفر (alien, alienate, band, dislike, person, repel, soldier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разубеждавам (deter, discourage, dissuade, put off, reason out of), настройвам против (turn against), премахвам желание за, правя неспособен (disable, incapacitate, lame, unfit), правя негоден (crock, disable, disqualify, incapacitate, lame, unfit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 厌恶 (Disinclination, indisposed, Indisposing, loathe, Loathed, loathing, repulsion, sicken, Sickened, sickening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uèinit neschopným. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مریض کردن , ناجورکردن , اماده ساختن , بیمارساختن , بی میل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indisposer, s'indisposer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | untauglich machen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθιστώ ανίκανο (disable), καθιστώ απρόθυμο, καθιστώ αδιάθετων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megvisel (to fag, to fag out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indisporre, rendere inabile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo ching, cur chingys er (sicken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indisposeay indispor (alienate, disenchant, disincorporate, queer, untune), imprescindível (necessary). (various references) indispune (bother, disturb, hinder, trouble), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry). (various references) вызывать недомогание, восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, recover, re-create, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, renovate, revive, undelete, unremove), делать непригодным (disqualify, unfit). (various references) izazivati slabost, onesposobiti (cripple, disable, hamstring, incapacitate, spike, unfit), oneraspoložiti (deject, depress, distress). (various references) indisponer. (various references) soğutmak (alienate, cool, disincline, estrange, offput, put off, refrigerate, wean), keyfini kaçırmak (discomfort, dispirit, flatten, give the pips, miff, upset), hevesini kırmak (damp smb.'s ardour, devitalize, discourage, dishearten), hasta etmek (make ill, sicken), elverişsizleştirmek, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references) спричиняти нездужання, викликати неприхильність. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "indispose": indisposed, indisposes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dopiness, sidespin. | |
-2 letters: dispose, insides, iodines, iodises, ionised, ionises, isospin, sinopie, spinose. | |
-3 letters: diesis, dipsos, donsie, enosis, eosins, essoin, indies, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionise, niseis, noesis, noised, noises, onside, opined, opines, opsins, ossein, pissed, poinds, poised, poises, ponied, ponies, posies, seisin, sniped, snipes, sondes, sonsie, spends, spined, spines, spodes. | |
-4 letters: dines, dipso, dopes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dispersion, indisposed, indisposes. | |
+2 letters: depositions, dispersions, impassioned, redisposing, suspicioned. | |
+3 letters: descriptions, dispensation, posteditings, preadmission, predisposing. | |
+4 letters: despoliations, dispassionate, dispensations, dispossessing, dispossession, dolphinfishes, mispositioned, nondispersive, periodontists, preadmissions, predigestions, redisposition, serendipitous, spondylitises, unimpassioned. | |
+5 letters: antidepression, decompositions, dispensational, dispensatories, dispossessions, endoparasitism, hyposensitized, misdescription, nondepositions, perfidiousness, predisposition, prodigiousness, pseudonymities, redescriptions, redispositions, superadditions, urediniospores. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 73 70 6F 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. ... .--. --- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i s p o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0073 0070 006F 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438070758582818571 |
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