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Deform

Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.

Deformation

The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

Deformed

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

Deformity

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

Defraud

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.

Defrauder

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

Defray

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

Defrayal

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

defrock

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

defrost

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

defroster

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

deft

Apt; fit; spruce; neat.

Deftly

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.

Defunct

A dead person; one deceased.

defuse

To disorder; to make shapeless.

defusing

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

degage

Unconstrained; easy; free.

degarnish

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

Degarnishment

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

degauss

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

degaussing

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

Degeneracy

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

Degenerate

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.

degenerate

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.

Degeneration

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

Degenerationist

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.

Degenerative

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Degerm

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.

Degerminator

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

Deglaze

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

Deglazing

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

Deglutinate

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

Deglutition

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

Degradation

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.

Degrade

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.

Degraded

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

degrading

causing humiliation or degradation; as, a degrading surrender.

Degras

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.

Degrease

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

Degree

A step, stair, or staircase.

degreed

possessing a college degree or degrees.

Degu

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontid/.

Degum

To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.

Degustation

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

Dehisce

To gape; to open by dehiscence.

Dehiscent

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

Dehorn

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

Dehors

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

Dehort

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

Dehorter

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

Dehumanize

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

dehumidify

to remove the moisture from (air or another gas); to reduce the humidity of; as, The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer.

Dehusk

To remove the husk from.

Dehydration

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

Dehydrogenation

The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

deice

to remove ice or frost from.

deicer

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

Deicide

The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.

Deictic

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

Deictically

In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.

Deification

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.

Deified

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

Deiform

Godlike, or of a godlike form.

Deify

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C/sar was deified.

Deign

To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.

Deil

Devil; -- spelt also deel.

deionize

to remove ions from (a solution).

deionized

freed from ions by a process of deionization; as, deionized water.

deionizer

an apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

deiparous

Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary.

Deipnosophist

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

Deism

The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.

Deist

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

Deistical Deistic

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.

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