Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Deaurate (a.) Gilded.
Deaurate (v. t.) To gild.
Deauration (n.) Act of gilding.
Deave (v. t.) To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.
Debacchate (v. i.) To rave as a bacchanal.
Debacchation (n.) Wild raving or debauchery.
Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
Debarred (imp. & p. p.) of Debar
Debarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debar
Debar (v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Debarb (v. t.) To deprive of the beard.
Debarked (imp. & p. p.) of Debark
Debarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debark
Debark (v. t. & i.) To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Debarkation (n.) Disembarkation.
Debarment (n.) Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
Debarrass (v. t.) To disembarrass; to relieve.
Debased (imp. & p. p.) of Debase
Debasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debase
Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Debased (a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
Debasement (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Debaser (n.) One who, or that which, debases.
Debasingly (adv.) In a manner to debase.
Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
Debated (imp. & p. p.) of Debate
Debating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debate
Debate (v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
Debate (v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
Debate (v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
Debate (v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Debate (v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
Debate (v. t.) Subject of discussion.
Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
Debatefully (adv.) With contention.
Debatement (n.) Controversy; deliberation; debate.
Debater (n.) One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
Debating (n.) The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debatingly (adv.) In the manner of a debate.
Debauched (imp. & p. p.) of Debauch
Debauching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debauch
Debauch (n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.
Debauch (n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
Debauch (n.) An act or occasion of debauchery.
Debauched (a.) Dissolute; dissipated.
Debauchedly (adv.) In a profligate manner.
Debauchedness (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance.
Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Debaucher (n.) One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
Debaucheries (pl. ) of Debauchery
Debauchery (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Debauchness (n.) Debauchedness.
Debeige (n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.
Debel (v. t.) To conquer.
Debellate (v. t.) To subdue; to conquer in war.
Debellation (n.) The act of conquering or subduing.
De bene esse () Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally.
Debenture (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
Debenture (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
Debentured (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.
Debile (a.) Weak.
Debilitant (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.
Debilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Debilitate
Debilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debilitate
Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Debilitation (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
Debility (a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
Debit (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
Debited (imp. & p. p.) of Debit
Debiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debit
Debit (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.
Debit (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.
Debitor (n.) A debtor.
Debituminization (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen.
Debituminize (v. t.) To deprive of bitumen.
Deblai (n.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
Debonair (a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
Debonairity (n.) Debonairness.
Debonairly (adv.) Courteously; elegantly.
Debonairness (n.) The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
Debosh (v. t.) To debauch.
Deboshment (n.) Debauchment.
Debouched (imp. & p. p.) of Debouch
Debouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debouch
Debouch (v. i.) To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Debouche (n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.
Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
Debris (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Debris (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.
Debruised (a.) Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
Debt (n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
Debt (n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
Debted (p. a.) Indebted; obliged to.
Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
Debtless (a.) Free from debt.