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.

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.

To defile; to disfigure.

A making foul.

The devil; a demon.

Devilish; excessive; extreme.

See Deuce, Deuced.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Second sight.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

Same as Deutohydroguret.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.

The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.

Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.

A disulphide.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.

A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.

The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written.

The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.

To devastate.

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

same as desolated.

highly critical; making light of; as, a devastating portrait of human folly.