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Disbase vs Diabase - What's the difference?

disbase | diabase |

As a verb disbase

is (obsolete) to debase or degrade.

As a noun diabase is

(geology) a fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar.

disbase

English

Verb

(disbas)
  • (obsolete) To debase or degrade.
    • Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. — Ben Jonson.
    (Webster 1913)

    diabase

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia diabase) (-)
  • (geology) A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar

    • Synonyms

    * dolerite