a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war).

an enzyme that removes the iodine radical.

to remove iodine from.

removing iodine from.

the removal of iodine atoms from organic compounds.

to remove ions from.

To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

A female deacon One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

See Deaconship.

The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

To make inactive; to render ineffective; as, to deactivate a bomb; to deactivate a machine; to deactivate the alarm.

The act or process of deactivating.

To die; to lose life or force.

A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.

Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.

precisely accurate and to the point; as, a dead-on feel for characterization.

Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.

See under Dead, a.

Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as Beat, n., 7.

Stillborn.

To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

One who, or that which, deadens or checks.

The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).

One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.

A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.

A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.

State of the dead.

The quality of being deadly.

A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.

In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly.

The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

To deafen.

an electronic device which amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing.

both deaf and unable to speak; without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. Same as Deaf-mute.

A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.

the condition of being a deaf-mute; a congenital deafness that results in inability to speak.

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

rendered deaf.

extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness; as, a disco with rock music played at a deafening volume.

Lonely; solitary.

Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

To whiten.

Act of bleaching; a whitening.

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

Share dealt.

To walk abroad.

A walking abroad; a promenading.

A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

The office of a dean.

To endear.

Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

Greatly beloved.

A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

variant of Dere, v. t. n.

Same as Deary.

A darling.

In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

Same as Darn.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

To disjoint.

Precious.

A dear; a darling.

See Dais.

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.

a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster.

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

Appearance of death.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Resembling death.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

Toward death.

A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocid/, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

To gild.

Act of gilding.

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

To rave as a bacchanal.

Wild raving or debauchery.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d/bris.

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

To deprive of the beard.

To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Disembarkation.

Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

To disembarrass; to relieve.

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

One who, or that which, debases.

In a manner to debase.

Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.

A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.

With contention.

Controversy; deliberation; debate.

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

In the manner of a debate.

Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.