| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dis·grace |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d s-gr s |
| NOUN: | 1. Loss of honor, respect, or reputation; shame. 2. The condition of being strongly and generally disapproved. 3. One that brings disfavor or discredit: Your handwriting is a disgrace. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: dis·graced, dis·grac·ing, dis·grac·es
1. To bring shame or dishonor on: disgraced the entire community. 2. To deprive of favor or good repute; treat with disfavor: The family was disgraced by the scandal. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French disgrâce, from Italian disgrazia : dis-, not (from Latin; see dis–) + grazia, favor (from Latin grtia, from grtus, pleasing; see gwer -2 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | dis·gracer —NOUN
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