*désignation, n.f., designation, indication; nomination, choice, election.

*désigné, -e, part., appointed, indicated, prescribed. À l’heure —e; at the appointed hour.

*désigner, v.a., to designate, to describe; to dénote, to betoken; to appoint, to fix; to assign, to elect, to nominate, to choose, to point out; to name, to call.

désillusion, n.f., désillusionnement, n.m., disillusion; disappointment.

désillusionner, v.a., to undeceive, to disillusionize, to disappoint.

désincorporer, v.a., to disincorporate, to separate, to disunite, to disembody.

désinence, n.f., (gram.) termination, ending.

désinfatuer, v.a., to disabuse, to undeceive, to dispel the infatuation of.

se désinfatuer, v.r., to cease to be infatuated.

désinfectant, adj., disinfecting.