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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English prefer English disprefer From dis- + prefer.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
