Word Meanings - DISSHEATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To become unsheathed. Sir W. Raleigh.

Related words: (words related to DISSHEATHE)

• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.