discountenance

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Verb discountenance has 2 senses

discountenance - look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
--₁ is one way to shame
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
discountenance - show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"
--₂ is one way to disapprove
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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