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.

To destine, design, or choose.

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.

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.

To remove darkness from.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations), as by agreement, negotiation, or tacit understandings.

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

A cleansing quality or power.

Cleansing; purging. A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

going from better to worse.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

Worse state or quality; inferiority.

The act of deterring; also, that which deters.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness.

Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.