Word Meanings - DISUTILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of utility; to render useless. Mrs. Browning.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• BROWN THRUSH
  A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNIST
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• BROWNISH
  Somewhat brown.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• BROWN
  1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• BROWNSTONE
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• BROWN BILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• RENDER
  1. A surrender. Shak. 2. A return; a payment of rent. In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone. 3. An account given; a statement. Shak.
• USELESS
  Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless,
• BROWN RACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• FUTILITY
  1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. 2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.
• EVOLUTILITY
  The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self- nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• MUSELESS
  Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• INUTILITY
  Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
• PRENDER
  The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.