Word Meanings - DISEMBELLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
DISADORN
To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
EMBELLISHMENT
1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath