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单词 discountenance
释义
discountenance
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v

WORD FAMILY
discountenance: discountenanced, discountenances, discountenancing+/countenance: countenanced, countenances, countenancing, discountenance
USAGE EXAMPLES
Such dishevelment had been sternly discountenanced since the time of Peter the Great.
Huneker, James, Franz Liszt(2012)
Emancipation, in spite of harsh laws passed to discountenance it, had rapidly gone on.
Brown, George William, Baltimore and The Nineteenth of Apr...(2012)
Gerard was ill at ease before, but this battery of eyes discountenanced him, and down went his eyes on the ground.
Reade, Charles, The Cloister and the Hearth—A Tale...(2012)
1v look with disfavor on
The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
Hyper
shame
cause to be ashamed
2v show disapproval by discouraging
any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
Hyper
disapprove
consider bad or wrong
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