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English to English noun
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Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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look with disfavor on | | Example: The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
source: wordnet30
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show disapproval by discouraging | | Example: any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
source: wordnet30
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To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. | | source: webster1913
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