Defly (adv.) Deftly.
Defoedation (n.) Defedation.
Defoliate (a.) Alt. of Defoliated
Defoliated (a.) Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.
Defoliation (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
Deforced (imp. & p. p.) of Deforce
Deforcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deforce
Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
Deforce (v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.
Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Deforcement (n.) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
Deforceor (n.) Same as Deforciant.
Deforciant (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
Deforciant (n.) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
Deforciation (n.) Same as Deforcement, n.
Deforest (v. t.) To clear of forests; to disforest.
Deformed (imp. & p. p.) of Deform
Deforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deform
Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Deform (v. t.) To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.
Deform (a.) Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.
Deformation (n.) The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.
Deformation (n.) Transformation; change of shape.
Deformed (a.) Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.
Deformer (n.) One who deforms.
Deformities (pl. ) of Deformity
Deformity (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
Deformity (a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.
Deforser (n.) A deforciant.
Defoul (v. t.) To tread down.
Defoul (v. t.) To make foul; to defile.
Defrauded (imp. & p. p.) of Defraud
Defrauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defraud
Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Defraudation (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
Defrauder (n.) One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
Defraudment (n.) Privation by fraud; defrauding.
Defrayed (imp. & p. p.) of Defray
Defraying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defray
Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
Defray (v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
Defrayal (n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.
Defrayer (n.) One who pays off expenses.
Defrayment (n.) Payment of charges.
Deft (a.) Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.
Deftly (adv.) Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.
Deftness (n.) The quality of being deft.
Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Defunct (n.) A dead person; one deceased.
Defunction (n.) Death.
Defunctive (a.) Funereal.
Defuse (v. t.) To disorder; to make shapeless.
Defied (imp. & p. p.) of Defy
Defying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defy
Defy (v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Defy (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
Defy (n.) A challenge.
Degarnished (imp. & p. p.) of Degarnish
Degarnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degarnish
Degarnish (v. t.) To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.
Degarnish (v. t.) To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.
Degarnishment (n.) The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
Degender (v. i.) Alt. of Degener
Degener (v. i.) To degenerate.
Degeneracy (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
Degenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Degenerate
Degenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerate
Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
Degenerate (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
Degenerately (adv.) In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
Degenerateness (n.) Degeneracy.
Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.
Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
Degenerous (a.) Degenerate; base.
Degenerously (adv.) Basely.
Deglazing (n.) The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.
Degloried (a.) Deprived of glory; dishonored.
Deglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Deglutinate
Deglutinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deglutinate
Deglutinate (v. t.) To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
Deglutination (n.) The act of ungluing.
Deglutition (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Deglutitious (a.) Pertaining to deglutition.
Deglutitory (a.) Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
Degradation (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrade
Degrading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degrade
Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.