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DISGRUNTLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a bad mood or into bad humour

Example:

The employees were disgruntled by their bad working conditions

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "disgruntle" is one way to...):

dissatisfy (fail to satisfy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disgruntle Sue

Derivation:

disgruntlement (a feeling of sulky discontent)

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