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Deafen

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

deafening

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

Deafness

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

Deal

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

Dealer

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.

Dealfish

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

Dealing

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.

Deambulatory

A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Dean

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

Deanery

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

Dear-bought

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

Dearborn

A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

Deare

variant of Dere, v. t. n.

Dearly

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

Dearness

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

Dearth

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

Death

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

death knell

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

death-roll

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

Death's-head

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

Deathbed

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.

Deathbird

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

Deathblow

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

Deathful

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

Deathless

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

Deathly

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

Deathsman

An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

Deathwatch

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.

Deave

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

Debacle

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.

Debar

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.

Debarb

To deprive of the beard.

Debark

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

Debase

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.

Debased

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

Debasement

The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

Debaser

One who, or that which, debases.

Debatable

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

Debate

A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

Debateful

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.

Debater

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

Debating

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

Debauch

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

Debauchee

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Debaucher

One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.

Debauchery

Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

Debauchment

The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Debeige

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.

Debenture

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

Debentured

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

Debilitant

Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

Debilitate

To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.

Debilitation

The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

Debility

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

Debit

To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

Debit card

a small usually plastic card with a magnetic coded number, similar to a credit card, which is used to pay for purchases by the electronic deduction of a sum of money (a debit) directly from the card-holder's bank account. Such cards do not require the establishment of a credit line, and such transactions do not incur any interest payments.

Deblai

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

Debonair

Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.

Debonairness

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debouch

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

Debouche

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

Debride

to remove (e. g., dead tissue) surgically from a wound.

Debridement

the surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.

Debrief

to interrogate (a person who has recently experienced an event), to obtain information about that experience; -- used especially of military pilots or diplomatic agents who have just returned from a mission.

Debris

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

Debruised

Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.

Debt

That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.

Debtee

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

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