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DISEMBARKATION n.
The act of disembarking.
DISEMBARKMENT n.
Disembarkation. [R.]
DISEMBARRASS v.
To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.
DISEMBARRASSMENT n.
Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
DISEMBAY v.
To clear from a bay. Sherburne.
DISEMBELLISH v.
To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
DISEMBITTER v.
To free from
DISEMBODIED a.
Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.
DISEMBODIMENT n.
The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
DISEMBODY v. 2 definitions
To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.
DISEMBOGUE v. 3 definitions
To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. Rolling down, the steep Timavdisembogues his waves. Addison.
DISEMBOGUEMENT n.
The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.
DISEMBOSSOM v.
To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.
DISEMBOWEL v. 2 definitions
let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.
DISEMBOWELMENT n.
The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
DISEMBOWERED a.
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.
DISEMBRANGLE v.
To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.
DISEMBROIL v.
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
DISEMPLOY v.
To throw out of employment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
DISEMPLOYMENT n.
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
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