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disadvances

disadvances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvance.

Meaning of disadvance

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

Questions about disadvances

What is disadvances the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disadvances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvance.

Words near disadvances in the dictionary

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

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