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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.
Capability of being determined; determinability.
Determinateness.
That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.
To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine.
In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.
State of being determinate.
The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
That which serves to determine.
One who determines.
To come to an end; to end; to terminate.
Decided; resolute.
In a determined manner; with determination.
One who, or that which, determines or decides.
The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives, preceding events, and natural laws.
One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
of or pertaining to determinism; as, deterministic theories.
The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.
That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.
That which deters or prevents.
The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
Cleansing; detergent. A cleansing agent; a detergent.
In a way to cleanse.
The quality of cleansing.
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Capacity of being odious.
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
The quality or state of being detestable.
In a detestable manner.
To detest.
The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
One who detests.
To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
One who dethrones.
Dethronement.
To dethrone or unthrone.
A person or thing detained A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.
from Detonate.
An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances; as, the detonation of gun cotton.
One that detonates An explosive whose action is practically instantaneous. Something used to detonate a charge, as a detonating fuse. A case containing detonating powder, the explosion of which serves as a signal, as on railroads. A gun fired by a percussion cap.
The act of detonizing; detonation.
To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.
Same as Detortion.
To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
to detoxify.
to remove poison from.
a medically supervised treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to rid the body of the addictive substances.
to remove poison from; to rid of the effects of poison.
To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
One who detracts; a detractor.
In a detracting manner.
A taking away or withdrawing.
Containing detraction; detractory.
Tending to detractor draw.
The quality of being detractive.
One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.
A female detractor.
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
To refuse; to decline.
same as detribalization.
the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.
to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs.
To do injury to; to hurt.
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Worn out.
A wearing off or away.
A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Debt.
Free from debt.
Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
To throw down.
To evict; to remove.
The act of deturbating.
To turn away.
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