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disfame

disfame noun: disrepute.

Noun

disfame (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) disrepute
    • Fame is half-disfame1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 119

Verb

disfame (third-person singular simple present disfames, present participle disfaming, simple past and past participle disfamed)

  1. (obsolete) To disrepute.

Forms of disfame

third-person singular presentdisfames
present participledisfaming
past participledisfamed
pastdisfamed

Origin of disfame

From dis- + fame.

Questions about disfame

What does disfame mean?
Disfame means disrepute.
What part of speech is disfame?
Disfame can be a noun or a verb.

Words near disfame in the dictionary

  1. disexcommunicating
  2. disfacilitate
  3. disfacilitation
  4. disfacilitations
  5. disfacilitatory
  6. disfame
  7. disfamed
  8. disfames
  9. disfaming
  10. disfancied
  11. disfancies

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