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disadvance

disadvance verb: to draw back, pull back.

Verb

disadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back.
    • Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of disadvance

third-person singular presentdisadvances
present participledisadvancing
past participledisadvanced
pastdisadvanced

Origin of disadvance

From Middle English disavauncen, from Old French desavancer.

Questions about disadvance

What does disadvance mean?
Disadvance means to draw back, pull back.
What part of speech is disadvance?
Disadvance is a verb.
What is the past tense of disadvance?
The past tense of disadvance is disadvanced.

Words near disadvance in the dictionary

  1. disadorn
  2. disadorned
  3. disadorning
  4. disadorns
  5. disads
  6. disadvance
  7. disadvanced
  8. disadvances
  9. disadvancing
  10. disadvantage
  11. disadvantageable

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