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dissuade
To convince （someone） not to do something.
🌱The thought of the danger he might be facing on the journey makes her uneasy, and she's trying to dissuade him from going. 🌳Dissuade is the opposite of persuade, though it's a less common word. The dissuading may be done by a person or by something else: A bad weather forecast may dissuade a fisherman from going out to sea that day, but a warning on a cigarette pack almost never dissuades a real smoker from having his or her next cigarette. disorient To cause to be confused or lost.
🌱By now the hikers were completely disoriented, and darkness was falling fast. 🌳The Orient is the East （just as the Occident is the West）. The verb orient comes from the traditional practice of building Christian churches so that the altar is at the building's easterly end—in other words, "orienting" the church. One reason for this practice is that the Book of Matthew says, "As the lightning comes from the East . . . so also will the Son of Man"—that is, just like the sun in the morning, Jesus in his Second Coming will appear in the East. Orienteering is participating in a cross-country race in which each person uses a map and compass to navigate the course. Orient comes from the word meaning "to rise" （like the sun）, and still today it's easy for a hiker to become disoriented when an overcast sky hides the sun. discredit 1、 To cause （someone or something） to seem dishonest or untrue.
2、 To damage the reputation of （someone）.
🌱His book had been thoroughly discredited by scholars, and his reputation was badly damaged. 🌳Since one meaning of credit is "trust," discredit means basically "destroy one's trust." A scientific study may be discredited if it turns out it was secretly written up by someone paid by a drug company. An autobiography may be discredited if someone discovers that the best parts came out of a novel. A lawyer may try to discredit testimony in a trial by revealing that the witness just got out of the slammer. Many political campaigns rely on discrediting one's opponents; desperate politicians have learned that, if they can claim that someone attacking them has been completely discredited, it might work even if it isn't true. dislodge To force out of a place, especially a place of rest, hiding, or defense.
🌱Senators are attempting to dislodge the bill from the committee, where the chairman has failed to act on it for five months. 🌳A lodge is usually a kind of roominghouse or hotel, and the verb lodge often means staying or sleeping in such a place. Thus, dislodge means removing a person or thing from where it's been staying. So, for instance, you might use a toothpick to dislodge a seed from between your teeth, police might use tear gas to dislodge a sniper from his hiding place, and a slate tile dislodged from a roof could be dangerous to someone hanging out on the street below.
🌱The thought of the danger he might be facing on the journey makes her uneasy, and she's trying to dissuade him from going. 🌳Dissuade is the opposite of persuade, though it's a less common word. The dissuading may be done by a person or by something else: A bad weather forecast may dissuade a fisherman from going out to sea that day, but a warning on a cigarette pack almost never dissuades a real smoker from having his or her next cigarette. disorient To cause to be confused or lost.
🌱By now the hikers were completely disoriented, and darkness was falling fast. 🌳The Orient is the East （just as the Occident is the West）. The verb orient comes from the traditional practice of building Christian churches so that the altar is at the building's easterly end—in other words, "orienting" the church. One reason for this practice is that the Book of Matthew says, "As the lightning comes from the East . . . so also will the Son of Man"—that is, just like the sun in the morning, Jesus in his Second Coming will appear in the East. Orienteering is participating in a cross-country race in which each person uses a map and compass to navigate the course. Orient comes from the word meaning "to rise" （like the sun）, and still today it's easy for a hiker to become disoriented when an overcast sky hides the sun. discredit 1、 To cause （someone or something） to seem dishonest or untrue.
2、 To damage the reputation of （someone）.
🌱His book had been thoroughly discredited by scholars, and his reputation was badly damaged. 🌳Since one meaning of credit is "trust," discredit means basically "destroy one's trust." A scientific study may be discredited if it turns out it was secretly written up by someone paid by a drug company. An autobiography may be discredited if someone discovers that the best parts came out of a novel. A lawyer may try to discredit testimony in a trial by revealing that the witness just got out of the slammer. Many political campaigns rely on discrediting one's opponents; desperate politicians have learned that, if they can claim that someone attacking them has been completely discredited, it might work even if it isn't true. dislodge To force out of a place, especially a place of rest, hiding, or defense.
🌱Senators are attempting to dislodge the bill from the committee, where the chairman has failed to act on it for five months. 🌳A lodge is usually a kind of roominghouse or hotel, and the verb lodge often means staying or sleeping in such a place. Thus, dislodge means removing a person or thing from where it's been staying. So, for instance, you might use a toothpick to dislodge a seed from between your teeth, police might use tear gas to dislodge a sniper from his hiding place, and a slate tile dislodged from a roof could be dangerous to someone hanging out on the street below.
DIS comes from Latin, where it means "apart." In English, its meanings have increased to include "opposite" or "not" (as in distaste, disagreeable), "deprive of" (disinfect), or "exclude or expel from" (disbar). The original meaning can still be seen in a word like dissipate, which means "to break up and scatter."🌸