Word Meanings - DISSEMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

dis-) + F. sembler to seem, L. simulare to simulate; cf. L. 1. To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

Additional info about word: DISSEMBLE

dis-) + F. sembler to seem, L. simulare to simulate; cf. L. 1. To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs J. P. Kemble. 2. To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. Tatler. Syn. -- To conceal; disguise; cloak; cover; equivocate. See Conceal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSEMBLE)

• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• trick
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• dupe
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• inveigle
• Conceal
• Hide
• secrete
• disguise
• keep secret
• screen
• suppress
• mask
• store
• protect
• ensconce
• cover
• burrow
• Shuffle
• Confuse
• interchange
• shift
• intershift
• intermix
• derange
• agitate
• evade
• equivocate
• quibble
• cavil
• sophisticate
• mystify
• palter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISSEMBLE)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to DISSEMBLE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.