English verb: discountenance | |||
1. | discountenance (emotion) look with disfavor on | ||
Samples | The republic soon discountenanced its few friends. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | shame | ||
2. | discountenance (cognition) show disapproval by discouraging | ||
Samples | Any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | disapprove | ||