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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.

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

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.

To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [R.] We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. Edw. Bates.

cline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.

To deprive of color; to bleach.

Deprived of color.

To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.

Suffering no decrease. [R.] It [the river] flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward.

To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] Hakewill.

To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the…

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his…

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel. [A Latinism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

To deprive of flowers.

Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.

To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above those passions that this world deform. Thomson.