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deprave.transitive
verb
inflected
form(s).depraved,
depraving
to speak ill of; malign; to make bad; to corrupt;
to debase;
debauch
depravation, depravement,
depraver.nouns
depravation.noun
a depraved
condition
depraved.adjective
marked by corruption or evil; especially, perverted
depravedness.noun
depravedly.adverb
depravity.noun
inflected form(s).plural.depravities
the quality or state of being depraved; a corrupt
act or practice
deprive,
deprived,
depriving,
deprives.transitive
verb
in the state
of having something taken away that was necessary;
to take something away from; to keep from possessing or enjoying; deny
deprivable.adjective
deprivation.noun
the act or an instance of depriving;
loss; the condition of being deprived; privation
deprecate.transitive
verb
inflected form(s)-deprecated,
deprecating
to express disapproval of; play down; make little
of; belittle, disparage
depreciate, depreciated,
depreciating,
depreciates.verbs
transitive verb use.to
lessen the price or value of; to think or speak of as being of little worth;
belittle;
decry;
deprecate
intransitive
verb senses.to diminish
in price or value
depreciator.noun
depredate.verb
inflected form(s).depredated;
depredating
transitive verb senses.to
lay waste; plunder; ravage
intransitive verb senses.to
engage in plunder
depredation,
depredator-nouns
depredatory-adjective
deride.transitive
verb
inflected form(s).derided,
deriding
to subject to usually bitter or contemptuous.ridicule;
to laugh at contemptuously;
ridicule
derider.noun
deridingly.adverb
derision.noun
the use of ridicule
or scorn to show contempt;
a state of being derided;
an object of ridicule or scorn
derisive.adjective
derisory,
derisively.adverbs
derisiveness.noun
showing derision
derisory.adjective
expressing derision;
derisive;
laughable; ridiculous.(a
contribution so small as to be derisory)
derive,
derived,
deriving,
derives.transitive verbs
to get or receive from a source; to trace from
or to a source; to originate
derivative.adjective
derived, hence, not original
derivation.noun
the act or process of deriving;
the state or fact of being derived; originating; a derivative; the form
or source from which something is derived; an origin; the historical origin
and development of a word; an etymology
Linguistics.–.the
process by which words are formed from existing words or bases by adding
affixes, as singer from sing or undo from do, by changing the shape of
the word or base, as song from sing, or by adding an affix and changing
the pronunciation of the word or base, as electricity from electric
derivational.adjective
deriver.noun
derivable.adjective
derivative.adverb
resulting from or employing derivation.(a
derivative word; a derivative process); copied or adapted from others (a
highly derivative style of clothing)
derivative, derivativeness.noun
something derived
derivatively.adverb
derriere.noun
buttocks
descendant.adjective
a person who is an offspring (born of, child)
of a family or ancestors
descendent.adjective
descending (to descend, to move from a higher
to a lower place)
descent.noun
lineage;
ancestry;
a descending; going down; downward motion
despair.verb
intransitive verb senses.to
lose all hope or confidence (despair of winning)
transitive verb senses.to
lose hope for
despair,
despairer-nouns
function as a.noun-despair
utter loss of hope; a cause of hopelessness (an
incorrigible
child is the despair of his parents)
despicable.adjective
deserving of contempt
or
scorn;
vile;
hideous
despicableness.noun
despicably.adverb
despise,
despised,
despising,
despises.transitive
verbs
to regard with contempt
or
scorn: despised all cowards and
flatterers; to dislike intensely; loathed.(despised
the frigid weather in January); disdain;
to regard as unworthy of one's interest or concern (despised any thought
of their own safety)
despisal, despiser.nouns
despite.noun
a looking down upon; in
spite of;
notwithstanding
debtor.noun
one that owes something to another
damn, damned,
damning,
damns.verbs
transitive verb use.to
pronounce an adverse judgment upon;
condemn;
to bring about the failure of; ruin; to condemn as harmful, illegal, or
immoral
intransitive verb use.to
swear; curse
damn.interjection
used to express anger, irritation, contempt,
or disappointment
damn.noun
the least valuable bit; a jot.(not
worth a damn)
damn.adverb
damn.adjective
damn well.idiom
without any doubt; positively (I am damn well
going to climb ths mountain)
damningly.adverb
devitalize, devitalized,
devitalizing,
devitalizes.transitive
verbs
to diminish
or destroy the strength or vitality
of
devitalization.noun
dismiss, dismissed,
dismissing,
dismisses.transitive
verbs
to end the employment or service of; discharge;
to direct or allow to leave (dismissed troops after the inspection; dismissed
the student after reprimanding
him); to stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel (dismissed all thoughts
of running for office); to refuse to accept or recognize; reject (dismissed
the claim as highly improbable)
dismissible.adjective
dismission.noun
doublespeak, double
talk.noun
deliberately ambiguous
or evasive language
devise, devised,
devising,
devises.transitive
verbs
to form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design
or contrive.(devised
a new system for handling mail orders)
devise, deviser.nouns
devisable.adjective
disembody, disembodied,
disembodying,
disembodies.transitive
verbs
to free (the soul or spirit) from the body; to
divest
of material existence or substance
disembodiment.noun
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