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disinvolves

disinvolves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disinvolve.

Meaning of disinvolve

Verb

disinvolve (third-person singular simple present disinvolves, present participle disinvolving, simple past and past participle disinvolved)

  1. (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
    • And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry
  2. To terminate the involvement of.
    • Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use all their influence with the local...1966, Select Documents on International Affairs, page 123

Questions about disinvolves

What is disinvolves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disinvolves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disinvolve.

Words near disinvolves in the dictionary

  1. disinvites
  2. disinviting
  3. disinvolve
  4. disinvolved
  5. disinvolvement
  6. disinvolves
  7. disinvolving
  8. disir
  9. disirregardless
  10. disjasked
  11. disjasket

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