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damaged
changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of .
Dap
To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Dase
See .
Datary
An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.
Deathful
Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Deburse
To disburse.
decompressing
the process of experiencing ; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure.
Deductible
Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.
Default
To fail in duty; to offend.
Defeasible
Capable of being annulled or made void; .
Deformer
One who deforms.
Dehort
To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.
Dejeration
The act of swearing solemnly.
Djeun
A djeuner.
Deligation
A binding up; a bandaging.
Deluge
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
demasculinization
the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Demented
Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Demisemiquaver
A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
Democratically
In a democratic manner.
Demonologer
One versed in demonology.
Demonstrability
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
densification
an increase in the density of something.
Dephase
To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.
Dephlegmator
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.
Depravingly
In a depraving manner.
Depreciative
Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.
Desitive
A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
Develin
The European swift.
Dicer
A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
Didelphian
Of or relating to the Didelphia.
Didonia
The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
Diphtheritic
Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.
Diphthongal
Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
disassemble
to be able to come apart easily; to be converted into constituent parts; .
Discardure
Rejection; dismissal.
Disclaimer
One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
discredited
being brought into disrepute; .
Disease
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
Disgust
Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; .
Disgustfulness
The state of being disgustful.
Dissite
Lying apart.
dissociated
not connected or associated.
Dissuasory
A dissuasive.
Distain
To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Distemperately
Unduly.
Distrustful
Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; .
Diureide
One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. .
Diversification
The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.
Dodecagon
A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.
Dodecastyle
Having twelve columns in front.
Dolerite
A dark, crystalline, igneous rock, chiefly pyroxene with labradorite.
Dolorous
Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal;
Double-tongue
Deceit; duplicity.
Dough
Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; .
Dove
A pigeon of the genus and various related genera. The species are numerous.
Drill
To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.
Drive
In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.
Dronepipe
One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
Ductible
Capable of being drawn out
Dulcifluous
Flowing sweetly.
Dumetose
Dumose.
Duodecuple
Consisting of twelves.
Dutied
Subjected to a duty.
Dyscrasy
Dycrasia.