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dissimilate, v. Chiefly Philol. rare.|dɪˈsɪmɪleɪt|
[f. dis- 4 + L. simil-is like, after assimilate.]
a. trans. To make unlike.
b. intr. To become unlike.
1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. lviii. 234 It is far easier..for distinct tribes, or languages, grouped and used together, to assimilate than to dissimilate. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. vi. 45 The habit..of continually substituting s1 for the s which they as continually hear about them, induces in their mind what I shall venture to call a ‘Dissimilating Sentiment’. 1935G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biol. of Lang. (1936) 93 When dh..was dissimilated..to d. 1946E. A. Nida Morphol. 287 Vowels may assimilate and dissimilate. |