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.

See Deflowerer.

To flow down.

To deprive of flowers.

One who deflowers; a ravisher.

Flowing down; falling off.

Downward flow.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.

Deftly.

Defedation.

to cause (a plant) to shed its leaves.

Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.

Same as Deforciant.

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.

Same as Deforcement, n.

To clear of forests; to disforest.

The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.

One who deforms.

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

A deforciant.

To tread down.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.

The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Privation by fraud; defrauding.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

One who pays off expenses.

Payment of charges.

To divest of the frock, i. e. to deprive (a priest, minister, etc.) of official ecclesiastical authority; -- of church officials.

To become free of frost or ice; as, it took four hours for the refrigerator to defrost.

A device that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).

Apt; fit; spruce; neat.

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.

The quality of being deft.

A dead person; one deceased.

Death.

Funereal.

To disorder; to make shapeless.

The act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb).

A challenge.

Unconstrained; easy; free.

To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.

To make a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by applying an opposing magnetic field.

the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field.

To degenerate.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.

a person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals.

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Degenerate; base.

Basely.

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.

Deprived of glory; dishonored.

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

The act of ungluing.

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Pertaining to deglutition.

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.

To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

causing humiliation or degradation; as, a degrading surrender.

In a degrading manner.

A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.