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deprave, depraved,
depraving,
depraves.transitive
verbs
to corrupt; to debase;
debauch;
to make bad; to speak ill of; malign;
depravation, depravement,
depraver.nouns
depravation.noun
the act
or an instance
of depriving; loss; the condition
of being deprived; privation;
a depraved condition
depraved.adjective
marked by corruption or evil; especially, perverted
depravedly.adverb
depravedness.noun
depravity.noun,.plural.depravities
the quality or state of being depraved;
a corrupt act or practice
deprive,
deprived,
depriving,
deprives.transitive
verb
in the state
of having something taken away that was necessary;
to take something away from; to keep from possessing or enjoying; deny
deprivable.adjective
deprivation.noun
the act or an instance of depriving;
loss; the condition of being deprived; privation
deprecate, deprecated,
deprecating,
deprecates.transitive
verbs
if you deprecate something, you criticize
it (he deprecated the low quality of entrants to the profession); belittle,
disparage;
to express disapproval of; play down; to depreciate;
make little of; to denigrate
and harm
deprecatory.also.deprecative.adjective
expressing disapproval or
criticism (deprecative policies are those which harm)
deprecatorily.adverb
deprecatingly.adverb
deprecation.noun,.plural.deprecations
deprecator.noun,.plural.deprecators
depreciate, depreciated,
depreciating,
depreciates.verbs
transitive verb use.to
lessen the value
or price of; if something such depreciates or if something
depreciates it, it loses some or all of its original value;
to think or speak of as being of little or of no worth;
belittle;
decry;
deprecate
intransitive
verb senses.to diminish
in price or value
depreciator.noun,.plural.depreciators
depreciation.noun,.plural.depreciations
an instance of disparaging
or belittlement;
(those who are cruel
often use intimidation
to lower the esteem
of others); a decrease or loss in value, as because of age, wear or market
conditions; in accounting, an allowance made for a loss in value of property
(the vehicle depreciated 30% the first); reduction
in the purchasing value of money
depredate, depredated,
depredating,
depredates.verbs
transitive verb senses.to
lay waste; plunder; ravage
intransitive verb senses.to
engage in plunder
depredation.noun,.plural.depredations
depredator.noun,.plural.depredators
depredatory-adjective
deride, derided,
deriding,
derides.transitive
verbs
if you deride someone or something, you say that
they are stupid or have no value;
to subject
to.usually.bitter
or contemptuous.ridicule;
to laugh at contemptuously
deridingly.adverb
derider.noun,.plural.deriders
derision.noun,.plural.derision
contemptuous
or jeering.laughter;
a state
of being derided
(the proposal
of teaching evolution as the
origination
of living organisms was held in derision by the more intelligent members
of the scientific community who do not accept things willy-nilly);
a laughingstock;
the use of ridicule or scorn
to show contempt; a state
of being derided; an object of ridicule or scorn
derisive,
derisively.adjectives
derisiveness.noun
showing derision
derisory.adverb
expressing derision; derisive; laughable; ridiculous.(a
contribution so small as to be derisory)
derive,
derived,
deriving,
derives.transitive verbs
to get or receive from a source; to trace from
or to a source; to originate
(a derivative word; a derivative process)
derivative.adjective
derived, hence, not original
derivative.noun,.plural.derivatives
something derived; in inguistics, a word formed
from another by derivation, such as electricity from electric; in mathematics,
the limiting value of the ratio of the change in a function to the corresponding
change in its independent variable; the instantaneous rate of change of
a function with respect to its variable; the slope of a graph of an equation
at a given point; also called differential coefficient, fluxion; in chemistry,
a compound derived or obtained from another and containing essential elements
of the parent substance
derivatively.adverb
derivativeness.noun
derivation.noun,.plural.derivations
the act or process of deriving;
the state or fact of being derived; originating; a derivative; the form
or source from which something is derived; an origin; discovering the historical
origin and development of a word; an etymology
Linguistics:.the
process by which words are formed from existing words or bases by adding
affixes, as singer from sing or undo from do, by changing the shape of
the word or base, as song from sing or by adding an affix and changing
the pronunciation of the word or base, as electricity from electric
derivational.adjective
deriver.noun,.plural.derivers
derivable.adjective
derivative.adverb
resulting from or employing derivation.(a
derivative word; a derivative process); copied or adapted from others (a
highly derivative style of clothing)
derivative.noun,.plural.derivatives
derivativeness.noun,.plural.derivativenesses
something derived
derivatively.adverb
derriere.noun,.plural.derrieres
buttocks; the bum
descent.noun,.plural.descents
lineage;
ancestry;
hereditary.derivation
(for example, an individual of Scottish descent); a descending;
a going down; a going back in time (in her thoughts she was descending
back to her childhood and the happy memories along the way); a downward
motion
descend, descended,
descending,
descends.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
come from an ancestor or ancestry (she was descended from a pioneer family);
to come down from a source; to derive
(a tradition descending from colonial days); also to move from a higher
to a lower place; come or go down (they were coming down the hill); to
pass by inheritance (the house has descended through four generations);
to lower oneself; stoop;
to proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch or scale (awards listed
in descending order of importance; notes that descended to the lower register);
to arrive in a sudden or an overwhelming manner (summer tourists descending
on the seashore village); derive-(a
tradition descending from colonial days)
transitive verb use.to
move from a higher to a lower part of; go down; to extend or proceed downward
along (a road that descended the mountain in sharp curves)
descendible or descendable.adjective
descendent.adjective,.plural.descendents.or.descendant(s)
a person who is an offspring
(born of, child) of a family or ancestors; someone's descendants are the
people in later generations who are related to them (they are descendants
of the original English and Scottish settlers; you are a descendant of
your mother and father, who descended from their mother and father); something
modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of
it
descendent.adjective
descending refers
to someone or something that came from a predecessor;
to descend, to move from a higher to a lower place; moving downward in
time or position (their family was traced from Adam to the present day)
despair, despaired,
despairing,
despairs.intransitive
verbs
to lose
all hope (despaired of reaching shore safely); to be overcome by a
sense of futility
or defeat; hopelessness
despair.noun,.plural.despairs
complete loss of hope; one despaired of or causing
despair (unmotivated.uncaring.elected
people that are the scourge
and despair of the public; an
incorrigible
child is the despair of his parents)
desperate.adjective
having lost
all hope; despairing; in dire
straits; despondent;
marked
by, arising from or showing despair (the desperate
look of hunger; a desperate cry for help); reckless
or violent because of despair (being desperate he resorted to criminality);
undertaken out of extreme urgencyor
as a last resort
(a desperate attempt to save the family business); nearly hopeless; critical
(a desperate situation occurred when the tax department illegally stole
money deposited in safekeeping); a desperate situation;
suffering or driven by great need or distress
desperately.adverb
desperateness.noun.(words
ending in 'ess'
are usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
is clumsy)
desperation.noun,.plural.desperations
the condition of being desperate;
despair;
recklessness
arising from despair
despicable.adjective
deserving of contempt
or
scorn;
vile;
hideous
despicably.adverb
despicability.noun,.plural.despicabilities
unworthiness.by
virtue of.lacking.higher
values; contemptibility;
despicableness
despicableness.noun.(words
ending in 'ess'
are usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
is clumsy)
despise,
despised,
despising,
despises.transitive
verbs
if you despise something you have an aversion
toward it and are rejecting
it (the sick murderous events perpetrated
mostly upon children by the cabal,
many of whom are pedophiles,
has been brought to light by the research revealed in the
Janet Ossebaard reports); despise is to
hold in contempt; to disdain;
to
regard
with contempt or
scorn
(despised flatterers); to regard as being the least, as
those of the cabal regard those who aren't of the cabal; spurn;
to dislike intensely;
loathed.(despised
the frigid
weather in January; despised advice
of others:.Proverbs
15:5); to regard as unworthy of one's interest or concern (despised
any thought of their own safety, so careless
were they)
despisal.noun,.plural.despisals
despiser.noun,.plural.despisers
despite.noun,.plural.despites
in spite
of;
notwithstanding;
a looking down upon; hurt;
harm;
causing.shame
to; insolence;
arrogance;
impudence;
disdain;
despise
despiteful.adjective
full of malice;
spiteful;
a heart of harm, instead
of a heart to help
despitefully.adverb
despitefulness.noun,.plural.despitefulnesses
debtor.noun,.plural.debtors
one that owes
something to another
debt.noun,.plural.debts
something.owed,
such as money, goods or services; an obligation
or liability
to pay or render
something to someone else; the condition
of owing (a family should not be in debt)
debtless.adjective
being without debt; owing no one anything (Romans
13:8 "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another, for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law.")
debit.noun,.plural.debits
an item
of debt as recorded in an account; an entry of a sum
in the debit or left-hand side of an account as on one's bank statement;
the sum of such entries; the left-hand side of an account or accounting
ledger
where bookkeeping entries are made
debit, debited,
debiting,
debits.transitive
verbs
to enter a sum on the left-hand side of an account
or accounting ledger; to charge with a debit (in error the bank debited
my account for another)
disservice.noun,.plural.disservices
a harmful action; an injury
darn, darned,
darning,
darns.verbs
transitive verb use.to
mend a garment, for example by weaving thread or yarn across a gap or hole
intransitive verb use.to
repair a hole, as in a garment, by weaving thread or yarn across it
darn.noun
a hole repaired by weaving thread or yarn across
it (a sock full of darns)
darn, darned,
darning,
darns.transitive
and intransitive verb use.
to damn; alteration of damn
people sometimes use darn or darned to emphasize
what they are saying, often when they are annoyed (we think there's not
a darn thing we can do about the weather; darn! I forgot my keys!; )
darn.adverb
the Creator darn well does as He pleases; you
can say I'll be darned to show that you are very surprised about something
(it was a darned good movie; a talking pig!' he exclaimed, well, I'll be
darned; darn it! I'll have to do it all myself!; this is a darn sight better
weather than we've had)
darn.interjection
used to express dissatisfaction or annoyance
darn.adjective
damn, damned
darn well.idiom
damn well
damn, damned,
damning,
damns.verbs
transitive verb use.to
pronounce an adverse judgment upon;
if you describe something such as evidence or a report as damning, you
mean that it strongly suggests that someone is guilty of a crime or has
made a serious mistake; proving or showing that someone has done something
bad or wrong;
condemn; to bring
about the failure of; ruin;
to condemn as harmful,
illegal
or
immoral; in a damned state
because of beliefs causing separation
intransitive verb use.to
swear;
curse
(damn it! I hit my finger with the hammer)
damn.interjection
used to express anger, irritation, contempt
or disappointment (I can't get this damn thing together properly)
damn.noun
the least valuable bit;
a jot.(not
worth a damn)
damn.adverb
damn.adjective
damningly.adverb
damn it.verb
often used when you are extremely angry or annoyed
with someone or something
give a damn.verb
show no concern or interest; always used in the
negative (right now she's so busy with what she is doing, she doesn't have
time to give a damn about anything else); to be completely indifferent
to
damn well.idiom
without any doubt; positively (I am damn well
going to climb this mountain)
damnable.adjective
deserving.condemnation;
odious
damnably.adverb
damnableness.noun
damnation.noun
the way into utter
worthlessness (a wild, care not for anything good lifestyle is a pathway
of damnation); the act of damning
or the condition of being damned
damnatory.adjective
threatening
with or expressing condemnation;
damning
dam.noun,.plural.dams
a dam is a wall that is built across a river in
order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake; a barrier constructed
across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water; a body
of water controlled by such a barrier; a barrier against the passage of
liquid or loose material, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate
one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth; an obstruction; a hindrance;
the mother of a four-legged animal, such as a horse; decameter
dam, dammed,
damming,
dams.transitive
verbs
to hold back or confine
by means of a dam; to close up; obstruct
dammer.noun
dam.noun,.plural.dams
a female parent, used of a four-legged animal;
mother of an animal
devitalize, devitalized,
devitalizing,
devitalizes.transitive
verbs
to diminish
or destroy the strength or vitality
of
devitalization.noun
dismiss, dismissed,
dismissing,
dismisses.transitive
verbs
to end the employment or service of; discharge;
to direct or allow to leave (dismissed troops after the inspection; dismissed
the student after reprimanding
him); to stop considering;
rid
one's mind of; dispel
(dismissed all thoughts of running
for office); to refuse
to accept
or recognize;
reject
(dismissed the claim
as highly improbable)
dismissible.adjective
dismission.noun,.plural.dismissions
dismissive.adjective
serving to dismiss; showing
indifference
or disregard:
a dismissive shrug
dismissal.noun,.plural.dismissals
the act of dismissing; the condition of being
dismissed; an order or notice of discharge (teacher said class dismissed,
so we went home)
doublespeak, double
talk.noun
deliberately.ambiguous
or evasive
language
devise, devised,
devising,
devises.transitive
verbs
to form,
plan or arrange
in the mind; design or contrive.(devised
a new system for handling mail orders)
devise.noun,.plural.devise
deviser.noun,.plural.devisers
devisable.adjective
disembody, disembodied,
disembodying,
disembodies.transitive
verbs
to free the soul or spirit from the body; to
divest
of material existence or substance
disembodiment.noun
dromedary.noun,.plural.dromedaries
the one humped domesticated camel (Camelus dromedarius),
widely used as a beast of burden in northern Africa and western Asia and
of African or Arabian species, known for its speed; also called Arabian
camel; the Bactrian camel has two
humps;
it is remarkable for its speed; the hair of the
camel falls off of itself in spring and is woven into coarse cloths and
garments:.Matthew
3:4
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