Word Meanings - DISGRUNTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.

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• DISAFFECTED
  Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• DISAFFECTION
  1. State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.
• DISSATISFY
  To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.
• DISAFFECT
  1. To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon. 2. To disturb the functions of; to
• ANGERLY
  Angrily. Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.
• ANGER
  affliction, sorrow; akin to Dan. anger regret, Swed. ånger regret, AS. ange oppressed, sad, L. angor a strangling, anguish, angere to strangle, Gr. amhas pain, and to. anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perh. awe, ugly. The word seems to have orig.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• TANGERINE
  A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
• BOULANGERITE
  A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.
• GANGER
  One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• BUSHRANGER
  One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• DOPPELGANGER
  A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• HANGER-ON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• FOREGANGER
  A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.
• ORANGERY
  A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.