/dissave-meaning

-) Verb.

-) Etymology: it is analysed into dis- (prefix implying the idea of undoing or reversing the action or effect of the verb “save”) + SAVE, from Latin salvus.

-) Documented since 1900.

-) Intransitively: to become a dissaver; to spend more money than one gets as income, by drawing one’s savings.

-) Translation: gastar más dinero del que uno gana, disminuyendo los ahorros, in Spanish; dépenser plus d’argent qu’on n’en gagne, jusqu’à la désépargne, in French; spendere i risparmi, in Italian.

-) Transitively: to spend (money) by dissaving.

-) English words derived from “dissave”: dissaver (one who dissaves), dissaving.

-) English words derived from Latin salvus: save (noun, verb, conj.), save-all, saved, savable, saveable, unsaved, unsaveable, unsaving, safe (noun, adj.), safed, safe-conduct, safe-guard (noun, verb), safeguarding, safeguarder, safeguardance, safe-hold, safekeep, safe-keeping, safely, safener, safeness, safety (noun, verb), safety-pin (noun, verb), unsafe, unsafely, unsafeness, unsafety, sage (plant), salve (greeting), salve (verb), salved, salving, salvo, salutation, salutational, salutationless, salutatorian, salutatory, salutatorily, salute (noun, verb), saluted, saluter, salutiferous, salutiferously, saluting, unsaluted, unsaluting, unsalvable, unsalvability, unsalvableness, unsalvatory, unsalved, unsalubrious, unsalubrity, unsalutary, salvage (noun, verb), salvaged,  salvaging, salvageable, salvable, salvableness, salubrious, salubriously, salubriousness, salubrify, salubrity, salver, dissever, dissaving, life-saving, life-save, life-saver.

 

 

/disrobe-meaning

/disrobe-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: dɪsrəʊb.

-) Etymology: it is analysed into dis- (prefix implying the idea of undoing or reversing the action or effect of the verb) + ROBE, which is from Old French robe (booty).

-) Third-person singular simple present: disrobes.

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: disrobed.

-) Present participle: disrobing.

-) Documented since 1500.

-) Transitively: to divest (a person) of a robe or garment.

-) Synonyms for “disrobe”: to unclothe, undress, to strip, ungarment, disarray, disgown, unrobe.

-) Antonyms of “disrobe”: to robe, clothe, dress, invest, garment, enrobe.

-) Translation: desvestir, in Spanish; svestire, in Italian; dévêtir, in French.

When midnight sounded from the clock-tower he touched a bell, and his pages entered and disrobed him with much ceremony, pouring rose- water over his hands, and strewing flowers on his pillow.

Wilde… The Young King… 1891

-) With the preposition “of” (or, rarely, “from”) + a noun by which the robe or garment is designated:

… Eveline felt herself lifted from her palfrey, and placed carefully and safely on the ground, in a sitting posture. A moment after, the same peremptory valet who had aided her to dismount, disrobed her of her cap…

Scott… The betrothed… 1825

 “You had better let me help you,” said Olive, gently, as, with a firm hand, she took hold of the shivering woman, or girl, for she did not look above seventeen, drew her to a seat, and there disrobed her of her drenched mantle.

Dinah Craik… Olive… 1875

-) Reflexively:

“If I had thought that any ceremony was necessary I should have sent you notice of my coming,” cried Margaret, quietly disrobing herself of her large red mantle, and her close black bonnet.

C. Ward… The cottage on the cliff… 1823

The parascenium, among the Romans, signified a place at the back part of the theatre, to which the actors retired for the purpose of robing and disrobing themselves.

J. Elmes… Dictionary of the fine arts… 1826

Quickly disrobing herself of her splendid dinner dress, she bade her maid give her […]

E. Caroline… The Duke… 1839

She disrobed herself even of the simple dress she wore.

A. Marsh- Caldwell… Father Darcy… 1846

-) Intransitively: to divest oneself of a robe or garment.

-) Words derived from “disrobe”: disrobement, disrober.

-) English words derived from “robe”: robe (noun, verb), rerobe, rerobing, robed, robeless, rober, enrobe, enrober, unrobe, unrobing, unrobed.