To lament.

Lamentably.

The state of being deplored or deplorable.

Deploration.

One who deplores.

In a deploring manner.

To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.

the arrangement or distribution (of resources such as people or equipment), in preparation for battle or work.

The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

To remove the polish or glaze from.

The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.

To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness.

Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

Depopulation; destruction of population.

To become dispeopled.

The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.

One who depopulates; a dispeopler.

Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment.

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

a person who was expelled from home or country by governmental authority; one who has been deported.

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.

Deportment.

Capable of being deposed or deprived of office.

The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.

To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.

One who deposes or degrades from office.

That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).

One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository.

A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.

Deposit.

The act of depositing; deposition.

A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

Deeper.

Detraction; depreciation.

To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

In a depraved manner.

Depravity.

Depravity.

One who depraves or corrupts.

In a depraving manner.

The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.

That may or should be deprecated.

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to desire the removal of.

In a deprecating manner.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented.

Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

One who deprecates.

Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

Liable to depredation.

To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.

The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

To proclaim; to celebrate.

To take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible.

A catching; discovery.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

In a depressing manner.

The act of depressing.

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.

One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.

Serving to depress.

Low estimation; disesteem; contempt.

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.

Deprivation.

One who, or that which, deprives.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

To deepen.

Having no depth; shallow.

To deflour; to deprive of virginity.

To deflour; to dishonor.

To drive away.

A driving or thrusting away.

Driving or thrusting away; averting.

Depurative.

To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

To depurate; to purify.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

See Depuration.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation.

A person deputed; a deputy.

same as deputize.

To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to appoint as one's substitute; to depute.

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.

To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).

The act of deraigning.