dispersion
— Noun
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~ spreading widely or driving off
dispersion
— Noun
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~ the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
dispersive
— Adjective
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~ spreading by diffusion
dispirit
— Verb
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~ lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
dispirited
— Adjective
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~ marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation"
dispirited
— Adjective
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~ filled with melancholy and despondency; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
dispiritedly
— Adverb
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~ in a dispirited manner without hope; "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances"
dispiritedness
— Noun
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~ a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
dispiriting
— Adjective
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~ destructive of morale and self-reliance
displace
— Verb
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~ take the place of or have precedence over; "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor"
displace
— Verb
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~ cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
displace
— Verb
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~ cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
displace
— Verb
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~ terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
displacement
— Noun
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~ an event in which something is displaced without rotation
displacement
— Noun
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~ act of removing from office or employment
displacement
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~ (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
displacement
— Noun
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~ to move something from its natural environment
displacement
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~ the act of uniform movement
displacement
— Noun
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~ (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
displacement
— Noun
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~ act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics