| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PREFIX: | 1. Not: dissimilar. 2a. Absence of: disinterest. b. Opposite of: disfavor. 3. Undo; do the opposite of: disarrange. 4a. Deprive of: disfranchise. b. Remove: disbud. 5. Free from: disintoxicate. 6. Used as an intensive: disannul. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French des-, from Latin dis-, apart, asunder.
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