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- DEFORMALIZETo make informal.
- DEFORMATIONThe act of deforming, or state of being deformed. Physically so.
- DEFORMATIONALPertaining to, due to, or causing deformation
- DEFORMITYThe state of being deformed.
- DEFOULTo trample underfoot.
- DEFRAGClipping of defragment.
- DEFRAGGERA defragmenter.
- DEFRAGMENTTo run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
- DEFRAUDTo obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
- DEFRAUDMENTPrivation by fraud; defrauding
- DEFRAYTo pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
- DEFRAYABLECapable of being defrayed.
- DEFRAYALThe act of defraying.
- DEFRAYMENTThe payment of charges, expenses, grants, etc.
- DEFROCKTo divest of a frock.
- DEFROSTTo remove frost from.
- DEFTQuick and neat in action; skillful.
- DEFTLYIn a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action.
- DEFTNESSSkilfulness, being quick in action.
- DEFUELTo remove the fuel from.
- DEFUNCTNo longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- DEFUNCTIVEfunereal or deathly
- DEFUNCTNESSThe state or quality of being defunct.
- DEFUSETo remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
- DEFUSEROne who, or that which, defuses.
- DEFUZEUncommon spelling of defuse.
- DEFYTo challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
- DEGASTo remove the gas from.
- DEGAUSSTo reduce or eliminate the magnetic field from (the hull of a ship, or a computer monitor, etc.).
- DEGAUSSERA device that performs degaussing.
- DEGENERATEHaving deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- DEGENERATELYIn a degenerate manner
- DEGENERATIVECharacterized by or causing degeneration.
- DEGERMTo remove the germ from (a cereal grain etc.).
- DEGLACIATIONThe removal of all glacial land ice from a region, usually by melting.
- DEGLAMORIZATIONThe process of deglamorizing.
- DEGLAMORIZETo make less glamorous
- DEGLAZETo remove glaze from.
- DEGLOVETo peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.
- DEGLUTITIONThe act or process of swallowing.
- DEGRASA semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly used as a dressing for hides.
- DEGREASETo remove grease from something.
- DEGROWTHA negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population.
- DEGUAny species of the genus Octodon, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.
- DEGUSTTo taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour
- DEGUSTATIONtasting, especially as a form of careful appreciation
- DEHISCETo burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content.
- DEHISCENTOf or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
- DEHORNTo remove the horns from.
- DEHORTTo dissuade.
- DEHUMANISENon-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanize.
- DEHUMANIZETo take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
- DEHYPNOTISEAlternative spelling of dehypnotize.
- DEHYPNOTIZETo release from a hypnotic state.
- DEICETo remove ice from (something).
- DEICERA chemical substance used to melt ice or snow deposited on roads, vehicles or other surfaces.
- DEICIDEThe killing of a deity; godslaughter.
- DEICTICOf or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context.
- DEIFICdivine; of or relating to a deity or deities.
- DEIFIEROne who deifies.
- DEIFORMGodlike.
- DEIFYTo make into a god.
- DEIGNTo consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe. To consider it appropriate or worthy to
- DEIONISEAlternative spelling of deionize.
- DEIONIZETo remove the ions from; to deprive of ions. To cause (an ionized substance) to return to a neutral state; to convert (an ion) into a neutral atom or molecule.
- DEIONIZERA device that deionizes something.
- DEISMA philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural pheno
- DEISTOf or relating to deism and deists.
- DEISTICOf or relating to deism.
- DEITYSynonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
- DEIXISThe use of a word, such as a particle or pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the immediate physical, temporal, or grammatical context; a word used in such a
- DEJECTMake sad or dispirited.
- DEJECTAany liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can
- DEJECTIONA state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- DEJECTORYHaving power, or tending, to cast down.
- DEKAGRAMAlternative form of decagram.
- DEKEA feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
- DEKEINGA feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
- DELAINEA kind of mixed fabric previously used to make women's dresses.
- DELAMINATETo cause (something assembled by lamination) to come apart into the layers that make it up.
- DELATETo carry; to convey.
- DELATIONConveyance.
- DELATORAn accuser; an informer.
- DELAYA period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- DELAYEROne who delays.
- DELETo delete.
- DELECTATIONGreat pleasure; delight.
- DELEGATEA person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
- DELEGATEESomeone or something to which something is delegated.
- DELEGATIONAn act of delegating.
- DELEGATOROne who delegates.
- DELETERIOUSHarmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
- DELETIONAn item that has been or will be deleted.
- DELETORYThat which blots out.
- DELEVERAGETo reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
- DELFA mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
- DELFTAlternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).
- DELIA shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
- DELIBATETo taste; to take a sip of.
- DELIBERATEDone on purpose; intentional.