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discost

discost is the obsolete form of discoast.

Meaning of discoast

Verb

discoast (third-person singular simple present discoasts, present participle discoasting, simple past and past participle discoasted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To depart; to leave the coast (literally, or figuratively the side or border); to be separated.
    • As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.a. 1623, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death

Forms of discost

third-person singular presentdiscosts
present participlediscosting
past participlediscosted
pastdiscosted

Questions about discost

What is discost the obsolete form of?
Discost is the obsolete form of discoast.

Words near discost in the dictionary

  1. discosean
  2. discoseans
  3. discosorid
  4. discosorids
  5. discospondylitis
  6. discost
  7. discosted
  8. discosting
  9. discosts
  10. discoteque
  11. discoteques

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discost (page history and authors); discoast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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