Deprehensible (a.) That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible.
Deprehension (n.) A catching; discovery.
Depressed (imp. & p. p.) of Depress
Depressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depress
Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
Depress (v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
Depress (v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
Depress (a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.
Depressant (n.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Depressed (a.) Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
Depressed (a.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
Depressed (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
Depressingly (adv.) In a depressing manner.
Depression (n.) The act of depressing.
Depression (n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.
Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
Depression (n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
Depression (n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
Depression (n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
Depression (n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
Depression (n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
Depression (n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
Depressive (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.
Depressomotor (n.) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.
Depressor (n.) One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
Depressor (n.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
Depriment (a.) Serving to depress.
Deprisure (n.) Low estimation; disesteem; contempt.
Deprivable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Deprived (imp. & p. p.) of Deprive
Depriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deprive
Deprive (v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
Deprive (v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Deprivement (n.) Deprivation.
Depriver (n.) One who, or that which, deprives.
Deprostrate (a.) Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.
Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Depth (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
Depth (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
Depth (n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
Depth (n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
Depth (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Depth (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
Depthen (v. t.) To deepen.
Depthless (a.) Having no depth; shallow.
Depthless (a.) Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
Depucelate (v. t.) To deflour; to deprive of virginity.
Depudicate (v. t.) To deflour; to dishonor.
Depulse (v. t.) To drive away.
Depulsion (n.) A driving or thrusting away.
Depulsory (a.) Driving or thrusting away; averting.
Depurant (a. & n.) Depurative.
Depurate (a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.
Depurated (imp. & p. p.) of Depurate
Depurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depurate
Depurate (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.
Depuration (n.) The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Depurative (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.
Depurator (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses.
Depuratory (a.) Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify.
Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Depurition (n.) See Depuration.
Deputable (a.) Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
Deputation (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
Deputation (n.) The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
Deputator (n.) One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
Deputed (imp. & p. p.) of Depute
Deputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depute
Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Depute (v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose.
Depute (n.) A person deputed; a deputy.
Deputize (v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Deputies (pl. ) of Deputy
Deputy (n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
Deputy (n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Dequantitate (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.
Deracinated (imp. & p. p.) of Deracinate
Deracinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate
Deracinate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
Deraination (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.
Deraign (v. t.) Alt. of Derain
Derain (v. t.) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
Deraignment (n.) Alt. of Derainment
Derainment (n.) The act of deraigning.
Derainment (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows.
Derailed (imp. & p. p.) of Derail
Derailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail
Derail (v. t.) To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
Derailment (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.