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402 words match “DEPRIVE”

CRIPPLE v. 2 definitions
To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.
CRUMBLE v.
stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.
DARK a.
Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.] He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. Evelyn.
DARKEN v.
To render dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10.
DEAD a. 3 definitions
Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with cand…
DEADEN v.
To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
DEAF a.
Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.
DEAFEN v.
To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries. Addison.
DEBARB v.
To deprive of the beard. [Obs.] Bailey.
DEBITUMINIZE v.
To deprive of bitumen.
DECALCIFY v.
To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
DECARBONATE v.
To deprive of carbonic acid.
DECARBONIZE v.
To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
DECARBURIZE v.
To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.
DECEIVE v.
To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud. [Obs.] Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Bacon.
DECITIZENIZE v.
To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [R.] We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. Edw. Bates.
DECOLOR v.
To deprive of color; to bleach.
DECOLORATE a.
Deprived of color.
DECOLORIZE v.
To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.
DECONSECRATE v.
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
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