| VERB | emotion | displease | give displeasure to |
|---|
| Sounds | dihspliy'z | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Achilles ... Yerkes: 115 rhymes with iyz... | |
| Meaning | Give displeasure to. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The bad news will displease him; The performance is likely to displease Sue | |
| Cause to | dislike | Have or feel a dislike or distaste for |
| Narrower | annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil | Cause annoyance in |
| dissatisfy | fail to satisfy | |
| repel, repulse | Be repellent to | |
| Opposite | please, delight | Give pleasure to or be pleasing to |
| Spanish | desagradar, disgustar, ofender | |
| Catalan | desagradar, descontentar, desplaure, disgustar, ofendre | |
| Nouns | displeasure | the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something |
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