DISGRUNTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgruntle mean? 

• DISGRUNTLE (verb)
  The verb DISGRUNTLE has 1 sense:

1. put into a bad mood or into bad humour

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGRUNTLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a bad mood or into bad humour

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The employees were disgruntled by their bad working conditions

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

dissatisfy (fail to satisfy)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disgruntle Sue

Derivation:

disgruntlement (a feeling of sulky discontent)