n
(music) An abrupt pause or stop; an abruption.
adj
Striking against; impinging.
adj
(law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
adv
So as to defeat, or frustrate progress.
n
The act of deflecting or something deflected.
v
(also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
v
(transitive, rare or obsolete) To dissuade.
n
(obsolete) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.
v
(statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).
n
An act of demoting; a lowering of rank or status
n
One who, or that which, demotivates.
v
(transitive) To make less than optimal.
v
To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material.
n
The act of deterring; deterrence.
v
(transitive) To lower or remove the value of something.
v
(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
v
(transitive) To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To prevent (something planned or attempted).
v
(transitive, archaic) To deform or disfigure.
v
(obsolete) To fall into pieces.
v
(medicine) To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.
adj
(obsolete) Set off, at a distance; remote.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To dissuade; to frustrate.
v
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
adj
(obsolete) Separated; drawn asunder.
n
Someone who has become distracted.
n
That which distracts, or serves as a distraction.
n
Something that distracts.
adj
That distracts, or causes distraction
n
(rare) The tendency to evade an issue by diverting attention to another.
adj
Tending to divert attention from one thing to another.
adj
(obsolete) distractive
v
(transitive, figuratively) To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
adv
In a diverting manner; so as to divert attention.
adj
(archaic) Tending to divert; amusing; interesting.
n
(computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
adj
Causing hinderance or setback; impeding; contrary; adverse; problematic
n
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
v
(obsolete) To disjoint; to separate.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To cause something or someone to be forgotten.
adj
That diminishes or attenuates
v
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
v
(transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete.
v
(transitive) To organize oneself better than.
adj
Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
n
The state or act of reaggravating.
v
To reactivate or reanimate.
v
(transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
v
(transitive) To reject or rebuff.
v
(transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
v
To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
n
The act by which something is silenced.
v
Archaic spelling of sin. [(intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.]
adj
Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.
v
(medicine, transitive) To partially dislocate or displace.
v
(transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
n
(computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack
v
(transitive) To not mention or fail to mention.
v
(transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
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