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diswant

diswant verb: to not want; to reject.

Verb

diswant (third-person singular simple present diswants, present participle diswanting, simple past and past participle diswanted)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To not want; to reject.

Noun

diswant (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The condition of not wanting something.
    • The speaker uttering this sentence expresses his diswant to believe that somebody (i. e. he) experiences the state devoid of understanding […]1978, Ruta Nagucka, Negatively Phrased Utterances in English: An Essay in Some Aspects of Negation Against the Historical Background...

Forms of diswant

third-person singular presentdiswants
present participlediswanting
past participlediswanted
pastdiswanted

Origin of diswant

From dis- + want.

Questions about diswant

What does diswant mean?
Diswant means to not want; to reject.
What part of speech is diswant?
Diswant can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of diswant?
The past tense of diswant is diswanted.

Words near diswant in the dictionary

  1. disvouch
  2. disvouched
  3. disvouches
  4. disvouching
  5. disvulnerability
  6. diswant
  7. diswanted
  8. diswanting
  9. diswants
  10. diswarn
  11. diswarned

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