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deliberation, examination, scrutiny, analysis, review;
confabulation, conference, powwow; debate, argument; Colloq
chiefly Brit chin-wag, US and Canadian bull session: The
subject of your dismissal came up for discussion yesterday.
disdainful
adj. contemptuous, scornful, contumelious, derisive, sneering,
superior, supercilious, pompous, proud, prideful, arrogant,
haughty, snobbish, lordly, regal; jeering, mocking, insolent,
insulting, Colloq hoity-toity, high and mighty, stuck-up,
highfalutin or hifalutin; Slang snotty: She was most disdainful
of our efforts to enter the cosmetics market.
disease n. 1 sickness, affliction, ailment, malady, illness, infection,
complaint, disorder, condition, infirmity, disability, Archaic
murrain, Colloq bug: The colonel contracted the disease while
in Malaysia. 2 blight, cancer, virus, plague; contagion: Panic
spread through the Exchange like an infectious disease.
diseased adj. unhealthy, unwell, ill, sick, ailing, unsound, infirm, out
of sorts, abed, infected, contaminated; afflicted, abnormal: We
must care for the diseased patients before those with broken
bones.
disembark v. land, alight, go or put ashore, get or step off or out,
leave; debark, detrain, deplane: Tomorrow we disembark at
Tunis.
disembodied
adj. incorporeal, bodiless; intangible, immaterial,
insubstantial or unsubstantial, impalpable, unreal; spiritual,
ghostly, spectral, phantom, wraithlike: She wafted before his
eyes, a disembodied spirit.
disenchanted
adj. disillusioned, disabused, undeceived, disappointed; blas‚,
indifferent, jaundiced, sour(ed), cynical: I'm afraid she's now
thoroughly disenchanted with her job.
disengage v. loose, loosen, unloose, detach, unfasten, release,
disconnect, disjoin, undo, disunite, divide, cleave (from),
separate, uncouple, part, disinvolve, extricate, get out (of),
get away (from), cut loose, throw off, shake (off), get rid of,