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disincline

/dis-in-klahyn/US // ˌdɪs ɪnˈklaɪn //UK // (ˌdɪsɪnˈklaɪn) //

弃权,厌弃,厌恶,拒绝接受

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Definitions

  1. 1

    dis·in·clined, dis·in·clin·ing.

    • : to make or be averse or unwilling: Your rudeness disinclines me to grant your request.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indiscourage
Forms: disinclined

Examples

  • A man may love oysters, but too many oysters will disincline him toward that particular diet.

  • And shall selfish feeling disincline me to such duties as these?

  • The water was so warm as at first to disincline one to enter it, but by degrees the sensation became far from unpleasant.

  • At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.

  • The efforts which a bad reader has to make, both disincline him to the task of reading, and hinder his appreciation of truth.

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