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Displease

//dɪsˈpliːz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly. transitive

    "The boy's rudeness displeased me."

  2. 2
    give displeasure to wordnet
  3. 3
    To give displeasure or offense. intransitive
  4. 4
    To fail to satisfy; to miss of. obsolete, transitive

    "I shall displease my ends else."

Etymology

English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).

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