Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 31
Deperditely (adv.) Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.
Deperdition (n.) Loss; destruction.
Depertible (a.) Divisible.
Dephlegm (v. t.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
Dephlegmated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlegmate
Dephlegmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlegmate
Dephlegmate (v. t.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
Dephlegmation (n.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.
Dephlegmator (n.) An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
Dephlegmatory (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
Dephlegmedness (n.) A state of being freed from water.
Dephlogisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlogisticcate
Dephlogisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlogisticcate
Dephlogisticcate (v. t.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.
Dephosphorization (n.) The act of freeing from phosphorous.
Depict (p. p.) Depicted.
Depicted (imp. & p. p.) of Depict
Depicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depict
Depict (v. t.) 描繪，描寫，描述，刻畫 To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
Depict (v.) Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" [syn: {picture}, {depict}, {render}, {show}].
Depict (v.) Give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" [syn: {describe}, {depict}, {draw}].
Depict (v.) Make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" [syn: {portray}, {depict}, {limn}].
Depict (v.) [ T ] (C2) 描繪，描述，描寫 To represent or show something in a picture or story.
// Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
// In the book, he depicts his father as a tyrant.
// [ + -ing verb ] People were shocked by the advertisement which depicted a woman beating her husband.
Depiction (n.) 描寫，敘述 A painting or depicting; a representation.
Depiction (n.) A graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: {word picture}, {word-painting}, {delineation}, {depiction}, {picture}, {characterization}, {characterisation}].
Depiction (n.) A representation by picture or portraiture [syn: {depicting}, {depiction}, {portraying}, {portrayal}].
Depiction (n.) A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: {delineation}, {depiction}, {limning}, {line drawing}].
Depiction (n.) Representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: {depiction}, {delineation}, {portrayal}].
Depiction (n.) [ C or U ] 描繪，描述，描寫 The way that something is represented or shown.
// The painter's depictions of the horror of war won her a worldwide reputation.
// I disapprove of the depiction of violence on television.
Depictured (imp. & p. p.) of Depicture
Depicturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depicture
Depicture (v. t.) 描出；描寫；描述；敘述 To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Depilated (imp. & p. p.) of Depilate
Depilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depilate
Depilate (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.
Depilation (n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
Depilatory (a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.
Depilatory (n.) An application used to take off hair.
Depilous (a.) Hairless.
Deplanate (v. t.) Flattened; made level or even.
Deplant (v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant.
Deplantation (n.) Act of taking up plants from beds.
Depleted (imp. & p. p.) of Deplete
Depleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplete
Deplete (v. t.) (Med.) 用盡；使減少；耗盡……的資源（精力等）；使空虛 [（+of）] To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. -- Copland.
Deplete (v. t.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. -- Saturday Review.
Deplete (v.) Use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out].
Depletion (n.) 消耗；用盡 The act of depleting or emptying.
Depletion (n.) (Med.) The act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Depletion (n.) The act of decreasing something markedly.
Depletion (n.) The state of being depleted.
Depletive (a.) 使空虛的；放血的 Able or fitted to deplete.
Depletive (n.) 減血藥 A substance used to deplete.
Depletory (a.) Serving to deplete.
Deplication (n.) An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.
Deploitation (n.) Same as Exploitation.
Deplorability (n.) Deplorableness.
Deplorable (a.) 可嘆的，可悲的，可憐的；悲慘的；糟糕的；骯髒的 Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Deplorableness (n.) State of being deplorable.
Deplorably (adv.) In a deplorable manner.
Deplorate (a.) Deplorable.
Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Deplored (imp. & p. p.) of Deplore
Deploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplore
Deplore (v. t.) 對……深感遺憾；哀嘆；悲悼，痛惜；譴責；強烈反對 To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
Deplore (v. t.) To complain of.
Deplore (v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
Deplore (v. i.) To lament.
Deploredly (adv.) Lamentably.
Deploredness (n.) The state of being deplored or deplorable.
Deplorement (n.) Deploration.
Deplorre (n.) One who deplores.
Deploringly (adv.) In a deploring manner.
Deployed (imp. & p. p.) of Deploy
Deploying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deploy
Deploy (v. t. & i.) (Mil.) (v. t.) 使展開；使疏開；(v. i.) 展開；部署 To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
Deploy (v. t.) To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.
Deploy (n.) 部署 Alt. of Deployment
Deployment (n.) (Mil.) 部署；調度 The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -- Wilhelm.
Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war. -- H. L. Scott.
Deploy (v.) Place troops or weapons in battle formation.
Deploy (v.) To distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East".
Deployment (n.) The arrangement or distribution (of resources such as people or equipment), in preparation for battle or work.
Deployment (n.) The distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work.
Deplumate (a.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Deplumate (v.) Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: {pluck}, {pull}, {tear}, {deplume}, {deplumate}, {displume}].
Deplumation (n.) 除去羽毛；換羽毛 The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Deplumation (n.) (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. -- Thomas.
Deplumed (imp. & p. p.) of Deplume
Depluming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplume
Deplume (v. t.) 拔羽毛；剝奪 To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. -- Fuller.
Deplume (v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.
The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. -- De Quincey.
Deplume (v.) Strip of honors, possessions, or attributes [syn: {deplume}, {displume}].
Deplume (v.) Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: {pluck}, {pull}, {tear}, {deplume}, {deplumate}, {displume}].
Depolarization (n.) 【物】退極化 The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
{Depolarization of light} (Opt.), A change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.
Depolarization (n.) A loss of polarity or polarization [syn: {depolarization}, {depolarisation}].
Depolarized (imp. & p. p.) of Depolarize
Depolarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depolarize
Depolarize (v. t.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depolish (v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.
Depolishing (n.) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
Deponed (imp. & p. p.) of Depone
Deponing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depone
Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Depone (v. t.) To lay down. [R.] -- Southey.
Depone (v. t.) 【古】作證 To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. -- State Trials (1606).
Depone (v. i.) To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]
The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. -- Dunlop.
Depone (v.) Make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose, depone].
Deponent (n.) (Law) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
Deponent (n.) (Gr. & Lat. Gram.) A deponent verb.
Syn: Deponent, Affiant.
Usage: These are legal terms describing a person who makes a written declaration under oath, with a view to establish certain facts. An affiant is one who makes an affidavit, or declaration under oath, in order to establish the truth of what he says. A deponenet is one who makes a deposition, or gives written testimony under oath, to be used in the trial of some case before a court of justice. See under Deposition.
Deponent (a.) (Gram.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population. [R.] -- Chapman.
Depopulated (imp. & p. p.) of Depopulate
Depopulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depopulate
Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city? -- Shak.
Note: It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers; as, the deluge depopulated the earth.
Depopulate (v. i.) To become dispeopled. [R.]
Whether the country be depopulating or not. -- Goldsmith.
Depopulate (v.) 1: Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate].
Depopulation (n.) The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. -- Motley.
Depopulation (n.) The condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all).
Depopulator (n.) One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
Deported (imp. & p. p.) of Deport