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disanimating

disanimating is the present participle and gerund of disanimate.

Adjective

disanimating (comparative more disanimating, superlative most disanimating)

  1. That deprives of vigour or courage; disheartening, dispiriting.
    • To call the pearly drops from Pity's eye, / Or stay Despair's disanimating sigh […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 87
  2. That deprives of soul or life; fatal, deadly.

Meaning of disanimate

Verb

disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of life.
    • That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
  2. (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
    • Now will it best avail your majesty
      To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
      The presence of a king engenders love
      Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
      As it disanimates his enemies.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of disanimating

comparativemore disanimating
superlativemost disanimating

Questions about disanimating

What does disanimating mean?
Disanimating means that deprives of vigour or courage; disheartening, dispiriting.
What is disanimating the present participle and gerund of?
Disanimating is the present participle and gerund of disanimate.
What part of speech is disanimating?
Disanimating is an adjective.

Words near disanimating in the dictionary

  1. disanchors
  2. disangelical
  3. disanimate
  4. disanimated
  5. disanimates
  6. disanimating
  7. disanimation
  8. disannex
  9. disannexation
  10. disannexations
  11. disannexed

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