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dister

/dɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)/

dister verb: to banish or drive from a country.

Verb

dister (third-person singular simple present disters, present participle disterring, simple past and past participle disterred)

  1. (obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
    • March 1 1621, James Howell, letter to Dr. Francis Mansel
      many thousands were disterred and banished hence to Barbary

Forms of dister

third-person singular presentdisters
present participledisterring
past participledisterred
pastdisterred

Origin of dister

From Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.

Words that rhyme with dister

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Questions about dister

What does dister mean?
Dister means to banish or drive from a country.
What part of speech is dister?
Dister is a verb.
How do you pronounce dister?
Dister is pronounced /dɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of dister?
The past tense of dister is disterred.

Words near dister in the dictionary

  1. distensive
  2. distent
  3. distention
  4. distentions
  5. distents
  6. dister
  7. disterane
  8. disterminate
  9. distermination
  10. disteroidal
  11. disterred

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