Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 31

Deperditely (adv.) Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.

Deperdition (n.) Loss; destruction.

Depertible (a.) Divisible.

Dephlegm (v. t.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

Dephlegmated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlegmate

Dephlegmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlegmate

Dephlegmate (v. t.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

Dephlegmation (n.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.

Dephlegmator (n.) An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

Dephlegmatory (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.

Dephlegmedness (n.) A state of being freed from water.

Dephlogisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlogisticcate

Dephlogisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlogisticcate

Dephlogisticcate (v. t.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.

Dephosphorization (n.) The act of freeing from phosphorous.

Depict (p. p.) Depicted.

Depict (p. p.) Depicted.

Depicted (imp. & p. p.) of Depict

Depicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depict

Depict (v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.

Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.

Depiction (n.) A painting or depicting; a representation.

Depictured (imp. & p. p.) of Depicture

Depicturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depicture

Depicture (v. t.) To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.

Depilated (imp. & p. p.) of Depilate

Depilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depilate

Depilate (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.

Depilation (n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.

Depilatory (a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.

Depilatory (n.) An application used to take off hair.

Depilous (a.) Hairless.

Deplanate (v. t.) Flattened; made level or even.

Deplant (v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant.

Deplantation (n.) Act of taking up plants from beds.

Depleted (imp. & p. p.) of Deplete

Depleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplete

Deplete (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

Deplete (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.

Depletion (n.) The act of depleting or emptying.

Depletion (n.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

Depletive (a.) Able or fitted to deplete.

Depletive (n.) A substance used to deplete.

Depletory (a.) Serving to deplete.

Deplication (n.) An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.

Deploitation (n.) Same as Exploitation.

Deplorability (n.) Deplorableness.

Deplorable (a.) Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

Deplorableness (n.) State of being deplorable.

Deplorably (adv.) In a deplorable manner.

Deplorate (a.) Deplorable.

Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.

Deplored (imp. & p. p.) of Deplore

Deploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplore

Deplore (v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

Deplore (v. t.) To complain of.

Deplore (v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

Deplore (v. i.) To lament.

Deploredly (adv.) Lamentably.

Deploredness (n.) The state of being deplored or deplorable.

Deplorement (n.) Deploration.

Deplorre (n.) One who deplores.

Deploringly (adv.) In a deploring manner.

Deployed (imp. & p. p.) of Deploy

Deploying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deploy

Deploy (v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

Deploy (n.) Alt. of Deployment

Deployment (n.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.

Deplumate (a.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

Deplumation (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

Deplumation (n.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.

Deplumed (imp. & p. p.) of Deplume

Depluming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplume

Deplume (v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

Deplume (v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.

Depolarization (n.) The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

Depolarized (imp. & p. p.) of Depolarize

Depolarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depolarize

Depolarize (v. t.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

Depolish (v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.

Depolishing (n.) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.

Deponed (imp. & p. p.) of Depone

Deponing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depone

Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager.

Depone (v. t.) To lay down.

Depone (v. t.) To assert under oath; to depose.

Depone (v. i.) To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness.

Deponent (v. t.) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.

Deponent (v. t.) A deponent verb.

Deponent (a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population.

Depopulated (imp. & p. p.) of Depopulate

Depopulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depopulate

Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.

Depopulate (v. i.) To become dispeopled.

Depopulation (n.) The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.

Depopulator (n.) One who depopulates; a dispeopler.

Deported (imp. & p. p.) of Deport

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