Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 33
Deprehensible (a.) That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [Obs.] -- Petty. -- Dep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]
Deprehension (n.) A catching; discovery. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall
Depressed (imp. & p. p.) of Depress.
Depressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depress.
Depress (v. t.) 使沮喪，使消沉，使心灰意冷；壓低；壓下 To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." -- Tennyson.
Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
Depress (v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
Depress (v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
Depress (v. t.) (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
{To depress the pole} (Naut.), To cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.
Syn: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble degrade; dispirit; discourage.
Depress (a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.
If the seal be depress or hollow. -- Hammond.
Depress (v.) Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: {depress}, {deject}, {cast down}, {get down}, {dismay}, {dispirit}, {demoralize}, {demoralise}] [ant: {elate}, {intoxicate}, {lift up}, {pick up}, {uplift}].
Depress (v.) Lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices".
Depress (v.) Cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" [syn: {lower}, {depress}].
Depress (v.) Press down; "Depress the space key" [syn: {press down}, {depress}].
Depress (v.) Lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy".
Depressant (n.) (Med.) 鎮靜劑 An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Depressant (a.) 有鎮靜作用的 Capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent [ant: {stimulative}].
Depressant (n.) A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: {sedative}, {sedative drug}, {depressant}, {downer}].
Depressed (a.) 沮喪的，消沉的，憂鬱的；壓低的；壓下的 Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
Depressed (a.) (Bot.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
Depressed (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
Depressed (a.) (Zool.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
Depressed (a.) Lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" [syn: depressed, down(p)].
Depressed (a.) Flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Depressed (a.) Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited].
Depressingly (adv.) 壓抑地；鬱悶地；令人沮喪地 In a depressing manner.
Depressingly (adv.) In a depressing manner or to a depressing degree.
Depression (n.) [C] [U] 沮喪，意氣消沉 [C] [U]；不景氣，蕭條（期）[C]；凹地，漥地 [C]；【氣】低氣壓 [C]；壓低；降低，下沉 [U] [C] The act of depressing.
Depression (n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.
Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
Depression (n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
Depression (n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
In a great depression of spirit. -- Baker.
Depression (n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
Depression (n.) (Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
Depression (n.) (Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
Depression (n.) (Surg.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
Angle of depression (Geod.), One which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane.
Depression of the dewpoint (Meteor.), The number of degrees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere.
Depression of the pole, Its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator.
Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.
Syn: Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy.
Depression (n.) A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [ant: {elation}].
Depression (n.) A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: {depression}, {slump}, {economic crisis}].
Depression (n.) A sunken or depressed geological formation [syn: {natural depression}, {depression}] [ant: {elevation}, {natural elevation}].
Depression (n.) Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
Depression (n.) A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: {Depression}, {Great Depression}].
Depression (n.) An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: {low}, {depression}].
Depression (n.) A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: {depressive disorder}, {clinical depression}, {depression}].
Depression (n.) A concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn: {depression}, {impression}, {imprint}].
Depression (n.) Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
Depression (n.) Pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter".
Depression (n.) (Unhappiness) (B2) [ U ] 憂鬱，抑鬱；消沉，沮喪 The state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future.
// I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression.
Depression (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] 抑鬱症 A mental illness in which a person is very unhappy and anxious (= worried and nervous) for long periods and cannot have a normal life during these periods.
// Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are all classic symptoms of depression. If you suffer from depression, it's best to get professional help.
See also Clinical depression.
Clinical depression (n.) [ U ] 抑鬱症 A mental illness that causes feelings of sadness and loss of hope, changes in sleeping and eating habits, loss of interest in your usual activities, and pains that have no physical explanation.
Depression (n.) (No activity) (C2) [ C ] （經濟）蕭條（期），不景氣（時期） A period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs.
// The stock market crash marked the start of a severe depression.
Depression (n.) (Weather) [ C ] (Specialized) (Environment) 低氣壓區 An area where the air pressure is low.
// The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
Depression (n.) (Hole) [ C ] 凹陷，淺坑 Part of a surface that is slightly lower than the rest.
// There was a depression in the sand where he'd been lying.
Depressive (a.) 壓抑的 Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
Depressive (n.) 抑鬱者 Someone suffering psychological depression.
Depressiveness (n.) [U] The state of being depressive.
Depressomotor (a.) (Med.) 【醫】使運動緩慢的 Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.
Depressomotor (n.) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.
Compare: Bromide
Bromide (n.) [Chemistry] 【化】溴化物 [C] [U]；溴化鉀鎮靜劑 [C] [U]；【美】【口】陳腐庸俗的話 [C] A compound of bromine with another element or group, especially a salt containing the anion Br⁻ or an organic compound with bromine bonded to an alkyl radical.
‘In Friedel-Crafts reactions, alkyl chlorides are more reactive than alkyl bromides and alkyl iodides react only with difficulty.’
Bromide (n.) [Chemistry] A trite and unoriginal idea or remark, typically intended to soothe or placate.
‘Feel-good bromides create the illusion of problem solving.’
Bromide (n.) [Chemistry] [dated] A sedative preparation containing potassium bromide.
‘Agents include phenobarbital, corticosteroids, isoniazid, iodides and bromides, and vitamins D and B 12.’
Bromide (n.) [Chemistry] A reproduction or piece of typesetting on bromide paper.
‘It was then re-typed in the Western People, reproduced in bromide form and placed on a page.’
Depressor (n.) 抑壓者；抑壓物；【醫】壓板； One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
Depressor (n.) (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
Tongue depressor (ph.)【醫】【美】壓舌板，壓舌器 US (UK Spatula) A small piece of wood used by a doctor to hold someone's tongue down in order to examine their mouth or throat.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.) 低壓神經 A nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.
Depressor (n.) Any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down [syn: depressor, depressor muscle].
Depressor (n.) Any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves [syn: depressor, depressor nerve].
Depressor (n.) A device used by physician to press a part down or aside.
Depriment (a.) Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." -- Derham.
Deprisure (n.) Low estimation; disesteem; contempt. [Obs.]
Deprivable (a.) 可剝奪的 Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. -- Prynne.
Deprivation (n.) 剝奪；免職；損失 The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
Deprivation (n.) (Eccl. Law) The taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
Deprivation (n.) A state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}, {deprivation}, {neediness}].
Deprivation (n.) The disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}, {deprivation}].
Deprivation (n.) Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: {privation}, {deprivation}].
Deprivation, () Ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393.
Deprivation (n.) [ C or U ] (C2) 缺失，缺乏，匱乏 A situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life.
// They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
// There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.
// There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.
Deprived (imp. & p. p.) of Deprive.
Depriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deprive.
Deprive (v. t.) 剝奪，從……奪走；使喪失 [（+of）]；免去……的聖職（或職務） To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. -- Shak.
Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
God hath deprived her of wisdom. -- Job xxxix. 17.
It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. -- Macaulay.
Deprive (v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
Deprive (v.) Take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: {deprive}, {strip}, {divest}].
Deprive (v.) Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining.
Deprive (v.) Take away [syn: {deprive}, {impoverish}] [ant: {enrich}].
Deprive (v.) [ T ] 奪走，搶走，剝奪 (B2) To take something, especially something necessary or pleasant, away from someone.
// He claimed that he had been deprived of his freedom/ rights.
// You can't function properly when you're deprived of sleep.
Deprived (a.) 被剝奪的；貧困的；deprive 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.
Syn: disadvantaged.
Deprived (a.) Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law" [syn: deprived, disadvantaged].
Deprivement (n.) 剝奪，剝奪官職，免職 Deprivation. [R.]
Depriver (n.) 剝奪者 One who, or that which, deprives.
Deprostrate (a.) Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.]
How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. -- G. Fletcher.
Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Depth (n.) 深度，厚度 [U] [C] [S1]；（色澤）濃度；（音的）低沉 [U] [S1] The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
Depth (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height. -- Keble.
Depth (n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
Depth (n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
From you unclouded depth above. -- Keble.
The depth closed me round about. -- Jonah ii. 5.
Depth (n.) (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Depth (n.) (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together. [R.]
Depth (n.) (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.
Depth (n.) (Computers) The maximum number of times a type of procedure is reiteratively called before the last call is exited; -- of subroutines or procedures which are reentrant; -- used of call stacks.
Depth of a sail (Naut.), The extent of a square sail from the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after leach of a staysail or boom sail; -- commonly called the drop of a sail.
Depth (n.) The extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" [syn: depth, deepness].
Depth (n.) Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
Depth (n.) (Usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space".
Depth (n.) (Usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction".
Depth (n.) The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness].
Depth (n.) The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; "the depth of his breathing"; "the depth of his sighs," "the depth of his emotion".
Depthen (v. t.) To deepen. [Obs.]
Depthless (a.) Having no depth; shallow.
Depthless (a.) Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
In clouds of depthless night. -- Francis.
Depucelate (v. t.) To deflour; to deprive of virginity. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Depudicate (v. t.) To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]
Depulse (v. t.) To drive away. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Depulsion (n.) A driving or thrusting away. [R.] -- Speed.
Depulsory (a.) Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] -- Holland.
Depurant (a. & n.) (Med.) Depurative.
Depurate (a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. -- Boyle.
Depurated (imp. & p. p.) of Depurate.
Depurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depurate.
Depurate (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.
To depurate the mass of blood. -- Boyle.
Depuration (n.) The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
Depurative (a.) (Med.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Depurative (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.
Depurator (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses.
Depuratory (a.) Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify. [Obs.]
He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. -- Sir T. More.
Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Depurition (n.) See Depuration.
Deputable (a.) Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. -- Carlyle.
Deputation (n.) 代理任命，代表，代表團 The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. -- South.
Deputation (n.) The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
By deputation, or In deputation, By delegated authority; as substitute; through the medium of a deputy. [Obs.]
Say to great C[ae]sar this: In deputation I kiss his conquering hand. -- Shak.
Deputation (n.) A group of representatives or delegates [syn: {deputation}, {commission}, {delegation}, {delegacy}, {mission}].
Deputation (n.) Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: {delegating}, {delegation}, {relegating}, {relegation}, {deputation}].
Deputator (n.) One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] -- Locke.
Depute (n.) A person deputed; a deputy. [Scot.]
Deputed (imp. & p. p.) of Depute.
Deputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depute.
Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. -- 2. Sam. xv. 3.
Some persons, deputed by a meeting. -- Macaulay.
Depute (v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose. [R.]
The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. -- Barrow.
Depute (v.) Transfer power to someone [syn: delegate, depute].
Depute (v.) Appoint as a substitute [syn: depute, deputize, deputise].
Depute (v.) Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign].
Deputize (v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to appoint as one's substitute; to depute.
Deputize (v.) Act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold" [syn: substitute, deputize, deputise, step in].
Deputize (v.) Appoint as a substitute [syn: depute, deputize, deputise].
Deputies (n. pl. ) of Deputy.
Deputy (n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. -- 1 Kings xxii. 47.
God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight. -- Shak.
Note: Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name; as, deputy collector, deputy marshal, deputy sheriff.
Deputy (n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France]
{Chamber of Deputies}, One of the two branches of the French legislative assembly; -- formerly called {Corps L['e]gislatif}. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.
Syn: Substitute; representative; legate; delegate; envoy; agent; factor.
Deputy (n.) Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies [syn: {deputy}, {deputy sheriff}].
Deputy (n.) An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent [syn: {deputy}, {lieutenant}].
Deputy (n.) A member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France).
Deputy (n.) A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: {deputy}, {surrogate}].
Deputy (n.) In 1 Kings 22:47, means a prefect; one set over others. The same Hebrew word is rendered "officer;" i.e., chief of the commissariat appointed by Solomon (1 Kings 4:5, etc.).
In Esther 8:9; 9:3 (R.V., "governor") it denotes a Persian prefect "on this side" i.e., in the region west of the Euphrates. It is the modern word _pasha_.
In Acts 13:7, 8, 12; 18:12, it denotes a proconsul; i.e., the governor of a Roman province holding his appointment from the senate. The Roman provinces were of two kinds, (1) senatorial and (2) imperial. The appointment of a governor to the former was in the hands of the senate, and he bore the title of proconsul (Gr. anthupatos). The appointment of a governor to the latter was in the hands of the emperor, and he bore the title of propraetor (Gr. antistrategos).
Deputy (n.) A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust.
"Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. -- Jamrach Holobom
Deputy (n.) [ C ] (C1) 代理人；副職，副手 A person who is given the power to do something instead of another person, or the person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an organization.
// I'd like you to meet Ann Gregory, my deputy.
// I'm acting as deputy while the boss is away.
// The deputy director/ editor/ sheriff.
// (UK) She's deputy (head) of a large North London school.
Dequantitate (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Deracinated (imp. & p. p.) of Deracinate.
Deracinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate.
Deracinate (v. t.) 滅絕；使孤立；使隔絕 To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.]
While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. -- Shak.
Deracinate (v.) Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate].
Deracinate (v.) Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out].
Deracination (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. [R.] Deraign
Deracination (n.) To move something from its natural environment [syn: displacement, deracination].
Deracination (n.) The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence [syn: extirpation, excision, deracination].
Deraign (v. t.) Alt. of Derain.
Derain (v. t.) (Old Law) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.]
Deraignment (n.) Alt. of Derainment.
Derainment (n.) The act of deraigning. [Obs.]
Compare: Deraign
Deraign (v. t.) (Archaic) （對他人的請求，訴訟等）表示異議；調動軍隊准備會戰；（當事人）以決斗來解決（爭端） T o defend or prove (a claim) or settle (a dispute) especially in personal combat.
Deraign (v. t.) (Archaic) To discharge from a religious order.
Derainment (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Derailed (imp. & p. p.) of Derail.
Derailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail.
Derail (v. t.) (v. t.) 使出軌 (v. i.) 出軌 To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. -- Lardner.
Derail (v.) Cause to run off the tracks; "they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste".
Derail (v.) Run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" [syn: {derail}, {jump}].
Derailment (n.) （列車等）出軌 The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
Derailment (n.) An accident in which a train runs off its track.