Desperation; virulence.

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

Despicableness.

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

A looking down; despection.

Despicable; contemptible.

A despising; contempt.

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

The state of being despised.

A despising.

One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

Contemptuously.

In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Despitefully.

Despiteous; very angry; cruel.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

Spoil.

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.

One who despoils.

Despoliation.

the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

Despondency.

Despondency.

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.

One who desponds.

In a desponding manner.

Betrothal.

To betroth.

A betrothing; betrothal.

A written pledge of marriage.

See Disport.

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.

The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.

A supporter of despotism.

To act the despot.

See Dispread.

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

To free from spume or scum.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

An instrument formerly used in removing the lamin/ of exfoliated bones.

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

Dais.

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

variant spelling of desiccate.

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

Destiny.

Determined by destiny; fated.

In a destinable manner.

Determined by destiny; fated.

The act of destining or appointing.

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.

A believer in destiny; a fatalist.

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

In destitution.

Destitution.

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

To destroy.

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

Destructible.

p. p. of destroy. Also See: damaged.

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

To destroy.

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

The quality of being destructible.

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

energy-releasing (prenominal); same as catabolic.

In a destructive manner.

The quality of destroying or ruining.

A destroyer.

To destroy.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

Disused; out of use.

The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.

To deprive of sulphur.

The act or process of depriving of sulphur.

To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.

Desultory.

Leaping or skipping about.

To select; to borrow.

to cause a process to occur at times or in cycles independent of another process.

a process causing an absence of synchronization; the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times; as, the stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves.

The act of desynonymizing.

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.

To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

That can be detached.

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, a detailed plan.

One who details.

description of something in detail.

confidential information.

Detention.

A writ. See Detinue.

One who detains.

Detention.

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.

One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable.

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.

One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.