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DEFLATE v.
To reduce from an inflated condition.
DELATE v. 5 definitions
To carry; to convey. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. Bacon.
DENTICULATE; DENTICULATED a.
Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx. -- Den*tic"u*late*ly, adv.
DENTILATED a.
Toothed.
DEOPERCULATE a.
Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.
DEOPPILATE v.
To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] Boyle.
DEOSCULATE v.
To kiss warmly. [Obs.] -- De*os`cu*la"tion, n. [Obs.]
DEPILATE v.
To strip of hair; to husk. Venner.
DEPOPULATE v. 2 definitions
tly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.
DEPUCELATE v.
To deflour; to deprive of virginity. [Obs.] Bailey.
DESOLATE a. 7 definitions
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolat…
DESOLATELY adv.
In a desolate manner.
DESOLATENESS n.
The state of being desolate.
DESOLATER n.
One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.
DILATE v. 5 definitions
; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
DILATED a. 3 definitions
Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
DILATEDLY adv.
In a dilated manner. Feltham.
DILATER n.
One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
DISARTICULATE v.
To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.
DISASSIMILATE v.
To subject to disassimilation.
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