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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

disencourage en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + encourage.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, regional) To discourage.
    • “They say things sometimes that tickles me nearly tuh death, but Ah won't laugh jus' tuh dis-incourage 'em.” 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 63:
    • The world has acknowledged you my offspring, and I will disencourage you no more. 1800, Frances Burney, Diaries and Letters:

Forms

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disencouraged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
disencouraged Tense=Past lexicographic
disencourages Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
disencouraging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic