Discountenance

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  • transitive verb. To view or treat with disfavor.
  • transitive verb. To put out of countenance; disconcert.
  • noun. Disfavor or disapproval.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Cold treatment; unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
  • To put out of countenance; put to shame; abash.
  • To set the countenance against; show disapprobation of; hence, to discourage, check, or restrain: as, to discountenance the use of wine; to discountenance the frivolities of the age.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
  • transitive verb. To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
  • noun. Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove
  • verb. To abash, embarrass or disconcert
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. look with disfavor on
  • verb. show disapproval by discouraging
    • Word Usage
    "It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste."
    Hypernym
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    disapprove  shame  
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    abash  abash  abashment  baffle  balk  
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