dissemble

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To disguise or conceal something. transitive
    — Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
  2. To feign, dissimulate. transitive
    — And like a Lyon, Slumbring in the vvay, / Or Sleep-diſſembling, vvhile he vvaits his Prey, […]
  3. To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice. transitive
  4. To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings. intransitive
    — VVhile to his Arms the bluſhing Bride he took; / To ſeeming Sadneſs ſhe compoſ'd her Look; / As if by Force ſubjected to his VVill, / Tho' pleaſ'd, diſſembling, and a VVoman ſtill.

词形变化

dissembles present,singular,third-person dissembling participle,present dissembled participle,past dissembled past

词汇关系

衍生词
dissembler dissemblingly undissembled undissembling

词源

First attested in the beginning of the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dissemblen, dissimblen, dissemelen, borrowed from Old French dessambler, dissembler, disembler, itself borrowed from Latin dissimulō and modified after sembler, semblance, etc. Doublet of dissimulate, dissimilate, and dissimule. Displaced native Old English mīþan.
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