disman

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ man

Verb

disman (third-person singular simple present dismans, present participle dismanning, simple past and past participle dismanned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of men.
    Synonym: unman
    to disman a country, a ship, etc.
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  2. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of human character.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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