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- verb Present participle of
disrate .
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Examples
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Captain Kendall would not have dug you up out of the forecastle; and believing this, naturally we dislike the thought of disrating you.
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I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.
Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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It was worse than tyranny, I thought, this arbitrary conduct in disrating me unjustly!
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874
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"If you please, your honour, I'd rather take my disrating -- I-- don't wish to be chief boatswain's mate in this here business."
Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820
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"If you please, your honour, I'd rather take my disrating -- I-- don't wish to be chief boatswain's mate in this here business."
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820
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