discountenance

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verb

1. look with disfavor on
- The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
• Hypernyms:
shame
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. show disapproval by discouraging
- any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
• Hypernyms:
disapprove
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something