debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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(noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
(noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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(noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
debased | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, vitiated |
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(adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, adulterated |
(adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: degraded, devalued |
debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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(noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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debatable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: disputable |
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(adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, disputable, moot |
(adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: problematic, problematical |
debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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(noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
(verb) argue with one another | - |
(verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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(noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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