Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

Dishonor.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

In a defamatory manner.

Defamatory.

Capable of being wearied or tired out.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue.

Weariness; fatigue.

To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.

One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

A defeat; an overthrow.

Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.

An undoing or annulling; destruction.

acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.

Overthrow; defeat.

Changed in features; deformed.

To become clear, pure, or free.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.

To injure; to damage.

Deficiency; imperfection.

Liable to defect; imperfect.

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.

One who advocates or encourages defection.

Having defects; imperfect.

Anything that is defective or lacking in some respect.

Great imperfection.

Full of defects; imperfect.

The act of making foul; pollution.

See Defense.

The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

same as defenseless; as, a defenceless child.

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

Capable of being defended; defensible.

One who defends; a defender.

One who is defended.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

A female defender.

to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

the act of throwing (something or someone) out of a window.

That which serves to protect or defend.

To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.

Defender.

Capability of being defended.

Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.

Capability of being defended; defensibility.

That which defends; a safeguard.

On the defensive.

A defender.

Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

That which carries or conveys.

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

With deference.

The act of delaying; postponement.

One who defers or puts off.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

Bidding or manifesting defiance.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

To defibrinate.

Same as Deficiency.

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.

Disfiguration; mutilation.

To delineate.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

morally blemished.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

Abstraction of a child from its parents.

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.

To determine; to decide.

The act of defining; definition; description.

One who defines or explains.

A thing defined or determined.

In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.

Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

In a definitive manner.

The quality of being definitive.

Definiteness.

To fix; to fasten; to establish.

The state or quality of being deflagrable.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A burning up; conflagration.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

To reduce from an inflated condition; used literally and metaphorically; as, to deflate a tire; to deflate expectations.

brought low in spirit.

the act or process of deflating.

of or pertaining to deflation; as, deflationary signs.

a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars; as, the GNP deflator..

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected; to deflect a punch; to deflect criticism by acknowledging a mistake.

To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

Capable of being deflected.

Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.

The act of freeing from inflections.

To free from inflections.

Causing deflection.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

Bent abruptly downward.

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.

Same as Deflower.