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Verb: dissimilate  di'si-mu,leyt
  1. Make dissimilar; cause to become less similar
    "Time and distance dissimilated the twin cultures"
     
  2. Become dissimilar or less similar
    "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time"
     
  3. (phonetics) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
    "These consonants dissimilate"

Derived forms: dissimilated, dissimilates, dissimilating

Type of: alter, change, modify

Antonym: assimilate

Encyclopedia: Dissimilate