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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 | ||
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