"displease" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪsˈpliːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-displease.wav [UK] Forms: displeases [present, singular, third-person], displeasing [participle, present], displeased [participle, past], displeased [past]
Rhymes: -iːz Etymology: English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere). Etymology templates: {{pre|en|dis|please}} dis- + please, {{der|en|enm|displesen}} Middle English displesen, {{der|en|xno|despleisir}} Anglo-Norman despleisir, {{m|fro|desplere}} desplere, {{der|en|fro|desplere}} Old French desplere, {{m|fro|des-}} des-, {{m|fro|plere}} plere Head templates: {{en-verb}} displease (third-person singular simple present displeases, present participle displeasing, simple past and past participle displeased)
  1. (transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-displease-en-verb-xGXWhyZF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 10 25
  2. (intransitive) To give displeasure or offense. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-displease-en-verb-fqfAtH8l Categories (other): English terms prefixed with dis- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with dis-: 33 49 18
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To fail to satisfy; to miss of. Tags: obsolete, transitive Translations (to fail to please or satisfy): ἀπαρέσκω (aparéskō) (Ancient Greek), malplaĉi (Esperanto), tuottaa pettymys (Finnish), olla vastenmielinen (Finnish), olla pettynyt (Finnish), missfallen (German), displiceō (Latin), whakaahu (Maori)
    Sense id: en-displease-en-verb-gR7P-YZf Disambiguation of 'to fail to please or satisfy': 13 2 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: misplease Related terms: displeasure, affront, anger, annoy, chafe, disgust, dissatisfy, offend, provoke, vex

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive, obsolete) To fail to satisfy; to miss of."
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      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
      "word": "malplaĉi"
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      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
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      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
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      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
      "word": "ἀπαρέσκω"
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      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to fail to please or satisfy",
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}

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