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.

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.

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

One who, or that which, devastates.

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.

Deaf.

The European swift.

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

Capable of being developed.

being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of undeveloped.

One who, or that which, develops.

the process of treating a photosensitive material with chemicals in order to make a latent image visible.

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.

To deprive of beauty or grace.

See Divergence.

To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.

Devexity.

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

; fem. of Deva. A goddess.

an aberrant state or condition.

Deviating.

To cause to deviate.

a person having behavior differing from that which is normal or socially acceptable; -- used especially to characterize persons whose sexual behavior is considered morally unacceptable.

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

One who, or that which, deviates.

Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

Full of devices; inventive.

In a deviceful manner.

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.