dissimilation
— Noun
– English
～ a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation"
dissimilitude
— Noun
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～ dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
dissimulate
— Verb
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～ hide (feelings) from other people
dissimulation
— Noun
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～ the act of deceiving
dissimulative
— Adjective
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～ concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"
dissimulator
— Noun
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～ a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
dissipate
— Verb
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～ move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
dissipate
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～ to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
dissipate
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～ live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
dissipate
— Verb
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～ spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
dissipated
— Adjective
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～ preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
dissipated
— Adjective
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～ unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
dissipation
— Noun
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～ breaking up and scattering by dispersion; "the dissipation of the mist"
dissipation
— Noun
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～ useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
dissipation
— Noun
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～ dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
dissociable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody"
dissociate
— Verb
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～ part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
dissociate
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～ regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
dissociate
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～ to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
dissociation
— Noun
– English
～ (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions