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All in-dispose synonyms

in-disΒ·pose
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verb in-dispose

  • restrain β€” to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • depress β€” If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
  • decline β€” If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
  • develop β€” When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
  • acquire β€” If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
  • obtain β€” to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • incur β€” to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • weaken β€” to make weak or weaker.
  • hinder β€” to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • prevent β€” to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • inhibit β€” to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
  • frighten β€” to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • curb β€” If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
  • impede β€” to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
  • scare β€” to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
  • dismay β€” to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
  • discourage β€” to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • dispirit β€” to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
  • humble β€” not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
  • deter β€” To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
  • deject β€” to have a depressing effect on; dispirit; dishearten
  • daunt β€” If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
  • demoralize β€” If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
  • humiliate β€” to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • unsettle β€” to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
  • bewilder β€” If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
  • perturb β€” to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • unnerve β€” to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
  • distract β€” to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • agitate β€” If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
  • disorder β€” lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
  • afflict β€” If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
  • get β€” to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • derange β€” to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
  • upset β€” to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
  • induce β€” to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • sicken β€” disgust
  • sink β€” to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
  • fall β€” to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
  • cause β€” a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • take β€” to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • indispose β€” to make ill, especially slightly.
  • control β€” Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
  • obstruct β€” to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • discountenance β€” to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • deprecate β€” If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
  • withhold β€” to hold back; restrain or check.
  • quiet β€” making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
  • interfere β€” to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
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