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Indispose

Definitions: Indispose

Indispose

Verb

1. 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: Indispose

Synonyms: disincline (v), disqualify (v), unfit (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: dispose (v), qualify (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Indispose

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Indispose

English words defined with "indispose": Indisposing. (references)

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Expression: Indispose

Expression using "indispose": indispose towards. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indispose

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  indispose

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Indispose

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

   

Portuguese

  

indispor (alienate, disenchant, disincorporate, queer, untune), imprescindível (necessary). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izazivati slabost, onesposobiti (cripple, disable, hamstring, incapacitate, spike, unfit), oneraspoložiti (deject, depress, distress). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

indisponer. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

спричиняти нездужання, викликати неприхильність. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Indispose

Derivations

Words beginning with "indispose": indisposed, indisposes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Indispose

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Indispose


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

49 6E 64 69 73 70 6F 73 65

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)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#112 &#111 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0069 0073 0070 006F 0073 0065

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

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

438070758582818571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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