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dishable

/dɪsˈheɪbəl/

dishable verb: to disparage. Also the obsolete form of disable.

Verb

dishable (third-person singular simple present dishables, present participle dishabling, simple past and past participle dishabled)

  1. (obsolete) To disparage.
    • She oft him blamed […] and him dishabled quite.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21

Also used as

dishable is also the obsolete form of disable.

Forms of dishable

third-person singular presentdishables
present participledishabling
past participledishabled
pastdishabled

Questions about dishable

What does dishable mean?
Dishable means to disparage.
What part of speech is dishable?
Dishable is a verb.
How do you pronounce dishable?
Dishable is pronounced /dɪsˈheɪbəl/.
What is the past tense of dishable?
The past tense of dishable is dishabled.

Words near dishable in the dictionary

  1. dishabituated
  2. dishabituates
  3. dishabituating
  4. dishabituation
  5. dishabituations
  6. dishable
  7. dishabled
  8. dishables
  9. dishabling
  10. dishallow
  11. dishallowed

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