| deodorant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodourant |
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| deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| department | (noun) a specialized sphere of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a specialized division of a large organization | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) | - |
| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
| depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
| deployment | (noun) the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work | - |
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| deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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| (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
| (noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
| (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
| (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
| (noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
| (noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
| (noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| depot | (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: terminal, terminus |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: entrepot, storage, store, storehouse |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
| derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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| derangement | (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: overthrow, upset |
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| (noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: mental unsoundness, unbalance |
| derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
| (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
| (noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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| descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: drier, drying agent, siccative |
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| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| detachment | (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: disengagement |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, separation |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: withdrawal |
| (noun) a small unit of troops of special composition | - |
| (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: insularism, insularity, insulation |
| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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| detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| (noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
| (noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
| determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
| (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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| dethronement | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: deposition |
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| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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| development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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| (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
| (noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
| (noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
| (noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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| diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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| dichromat | (noun) a person with any of the various forms of dichromacy | - |
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| dicot | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicotyledon, exogen, magnoliopsid |
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| dicynodont | (noun) a kind of therapsid | - |
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| diddlyshit | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| diet | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: dieting |
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| (noun) a prescribed selection of foods | - |
| (noun) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) | - |
| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) | - |
| (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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| (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
| diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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| (adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| (noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| digit | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: dactyl |
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| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| diluent | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: dilutant, thinner |
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| dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dingbat | (noun) a silly empty-headed person | - |
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| dint | (noun) interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of' | - |
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| diplomat | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomatist |
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| (noun) a person who deals tactfully with others | - |
| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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| (adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
| (adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
| (adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
| (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
| (adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
| (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
| (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
| (adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: directly, straight |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| dirt | (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: ungraded |
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| (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: soil |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| disablement | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment |
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| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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| disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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| disbandment | (noun) the act of disbanding | - |
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| disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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| disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
| discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discompose, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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| disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnection, gulf |
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| (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| discontent | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontented |
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| (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
| (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
| discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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| discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic |
| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |