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DISCOUNTENANCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they discountenance ... he / she / it discountenances
Past simple: discountenanced
Past participle: discountenanced
-ing form: discountenancing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Show disapproval by discouraging
Example:
any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "discountenance" is one way to...):
disapprove (consider bad or wrong)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Look with disfavor on
Example:
The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "discountenance" is one way to...):
shame (cause to be ashamed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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