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DISAFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disaffect mean? 

DISAFFECT (verb)
  The verb DISAFFECT has 1 sense:

1. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendlinessplay

  Familiarity information: DISAFFECT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISAFFECT (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they disaffect  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disaffects  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: disaffected  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: disaffected  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: disaffecting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

alienate; disaffect; estrange

Context example:

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

Hypernyms (to "disaffect" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disaffect"):

drift apart; drift away (lose personal contact over time)

wean (detach the affections of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disaffect Sue

Derivation:

disaffection (the feeling of being alienated from other people)


 Context examples 


Or rather, I suppose the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by the example of the ringleaders—only some more, some less; and a few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be led nor driven any further.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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