Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 41
Detorted (imp. & p. p.) of Detort
Detorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detort
Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest. -- Hammond.
Compare: Pervert
Pervert (v.) [With object] 使走上邪路，使變壞；腐蝕；歪曲，曲解 Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something).
‘He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.’
Pervert (v.) [With object] Lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or acceptable.
‘Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time.’
Compare: Wrest
Wrest (v.) [With object] [O] [(+from/ out of)] 用力擰（或拉）；奪取，強奪；費力取得 Forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp.
‘Leila tried to wrest her arm from his hold.’
Wrest (v.) [With object] Take (something, especially power or control) after considerable effort or difficulty.
‘They wanted people to wrest control of their lives from impersonal bureaucracies.’
Wrest (v.) [With object] (Archaic) Distort the meaning or interpretation of (something) to suit one's own interests or views.
‘You appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made.’
Wrest (n.) 扭，擰 [C] The act or an instance of wresting.
Wrest (n.) (Archaic) A key for tuning a harp or piano.
Detortion (n.) 反捩轉 The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
Detour (n.) 繞道；繞行的路 [C] A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Detour (n.) A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) [syn: {detour}, {roundabout way}].
Detour (v.) (v. i.) 繞道，迂迴 (v. t.) 使繞道；繞過，兜過Travel via a detour.
Detracted (imp. & p. p.) of Detract
Detracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detract
Detract (v. t.) 轉移（注意等）；使分心；【古】減損；詆毀 To take away; to withdraw.
Detract much from the view of the without. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Detract (v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. -- Drayton.
Syn: To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry.
Detract (v.) Take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character" [syn: take away, detract].
Detract (v. i.) 減損，降低 [（+from）] To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
Compare: Defame
Defame (v.) [With object] 誹謗；破壞……的名譽 Damage the good reputation of (someone); slander or libel.
‘He claimed that the article defamed his family.’
Compare: Reputation
Reputation (n.) [U] [S] 名譽，名聲 [（+for）]；好名聲，聲望；信譽 The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.
‘His reputation was tarnished by allegations of bribery.’
Reputation (n.) A widespread belief that someone or something has a particular characteristic.
‘His knowledge of his subject earned him a reputation as an expert.’
Detracter (n.) 誹謗者，貶低者 One who detracts; a detractor.
Other detracters and malicious writers. -- Sir T. North.
Detractingly (adv.) 令人分心地；令人心煩意亂地 In a detracting manner.
Detraction (n.) 誹謗；責難；貶抑 A taking away or withdrawing. [Obs.]
The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. -- Bacon.
Detraction (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
Syn: Depreciation; disparagement; derogation; slander; calumny; aspersion; censure.
Detraction (n.) A petty disparagement [syn: {detraction}, {petty criticism}].
Detraction (n.) The act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken".
Detractious (a.) 貶低的，減損的；詆毀的，譴責的，誹謗的… Containing detraction; detractory.
Detractive (a.) 減損的；誹謗的；責難的 Tending to detractor draw. [R.]
Detractive (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
Detractive (a.) Causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment".
Detractive (a.) See Detract
Compare: Detract
Detract (v.) (Detract from) [No object] 減損，降低 [（+from）] Diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement).
‘These quibbles in no way detract from her achievement.’
Detract (v.) [With object] 轉移（注意等）；使分心；【古】減損；詆毀 Take away (a specified amount) from the worth or value of a quality or achievement.
‘It is detracting nothing from his ability to say that he owed the championship to a superior car.’
Detract (v.) (Detract someone/ something from) [With object] Cause someone or something to be distracted or diverted from.
‘The complaint was timed to detract attention from the ethics issue.’
‘The role did not include operational responsibilities that would detract him from his work.’
Compare: Depreciative
Depreciative (a.) 價值低落的，減價的，貶值的 Causing gradual diminishment in value.
‘A depreciative effect on the currency.’
Depreciative (a.) 蔑視的，貶低的 Expressing a critical or disparaging opinion.
‘A depreciative view of the ministry.’
Detractiveness (n.) [U] The quality of being detractive.
Detractor (n.) 誹謗者，貶低者 One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
Detractor (n.) One who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: {detractor}, {disparager}, {depreciator}, {knocker}].
Detractor (n.) [C] 惡意批評者，貶低者 Someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly.
// His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for leadership.
Detractory (a.) 貶低的，減損的；詆毀的，譴責的，誹謗的 (= Detractive) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. -- Sir T. Browne.
Detractress (n.) A female detractor. -- Addison.
Detrain (v. i. & t.) (v. i.) 下火車 (v. t.) 使下火車；從火車上卸下 To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] -- London Graphic.
Detrain (v.) Leave a train.
Detrain (v.) Leave or cause to leave a train.
[No object] ‘The train from Loughborough will stop at Quorn for passengers to detrain.’
[With object] ‘Passengers were detrained as the train was on fire.’
Detrect (v. t.) To refuse; to decline. [Obs.] "To detrect the battle." -- Holinshed.
Detriment (n.) 損傷 That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
I can repair That detriment, if such it be. -- Milton.
Detriment (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]
Syn: Injury; loss; damage; disadvantage; prejudice; hurt; mischief; harm.
Detriment (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic]
Other might be determined thereby. -- Fuller.
Detriment (n.) A damage or loss [syn: detriment, hurt].
Detrimental (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Detrimentalness (n.) The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
Detrital (a.) (Geol.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Detrite (a.) Worn out.
Detrition (n.) 耗損 A wearing off or away.
Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. -- I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Detrition (n.) Erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition].
Detrition (n.) The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition].
Detrition (n.) Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure [syn: friction, detrition, rubbing].
Detritus (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
Detritus (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
Detruded (imp. & p. p.) of Detrude
Detruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detrude
Detrude (v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
Detruncated (imp. & p. p.) of Detuncate
Detruncating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detuncate
Detruncate (v. t.) 切除 To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
Detruncation (n.) 斷頭術 The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Detrusion (n.) The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Dette (n.) Debt.
Detteles (a.) Free from debt.
Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
Deturb (v. t.) To throw down.
Deturbate (v. t.) To evict; to remove.
Deturbation (n.) The act of deturbating.
Deturn (v. t.) To turn away.
Deturpate (v. t.) To defile; to disfigure.
Deturpation (n.) A making foul.
Deuce (n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
Deuce (n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.
Deuce (n.) The devil; a demon.
Deuced (a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme.
Deuse (a.) Alt. of Deused
Deused (a.) See Deuce, Deuced.
Deuterocanonical (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Deuterogamist (n.) 再婚者 One who marries the second time.
Deuterogamy (n.) 再婚；再嫁 A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See {Bigamy}. -- Goldsmith.
Deuterogenic (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Deuteronomist (n.) The writer of Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
Deuteropathia (n.) Alt. of Deuteropathy
Deuteropathy (n.) (Med.) 【醫】副症；繼發病 A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.
Deuteropathic (a.) Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
Deuteroscopy (n.) Second sight.
Deuteroscopy (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.
Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
Deuthydroguret (n.) Same as Deutohydroguret.
Deuto- () Alt. of Deut-
Deut- () A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
Deutohydroguret (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
Deutoplasm (n.) [U] (Biol.) 【生】副漿；滋養質 The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.
Deutoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.
Deutosulphuret (n.) A disulphide.
Deutoxide (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
Deutzia (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
Dev (n.) Alt. of Deva
Deva (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
Devanagari (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written.
Devaporation (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.
Devast (v. t.) To devastate.
Devastated (imp. & p. p.) of Devastate
Devastating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate
Devastate (v. t.) 使荒蕪；破壞；蹂躪；使垮掉，壓倒；毀壞 To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Whole countries . . . were devastated. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
Devastate (v.) Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: {lay waste to}, {waste}, {devastate}, {desolate}, {ravage}, {scourge}].
Devastate (v.) Overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died".
Devastate (v.) [ T ] (Destroy) 摧毀，毀滅，搗毀 To destroy a place or thing completely or cause great damage.
Devastate (v.) [ T ] (Upset) 使極為震驚；使極為煩亂 To make someone feel very shocked and upset.
Devastated (a.) 身心交瘁的；極為震驚的；devastate 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Same as desolated.
Syn: blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted.
Devastating (a.) 壞性極大的，毀滅性的；辛辣的，挖苦的 Highly critical; making light of; as, a devastating portrait of human folly.
Syn: annihilating, withering.
Devastating (a.) Causing or capable of causing complete destruction; as, a devastating hurricane.
Syn: annihilative.
Devastating (a.) Making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: {annihilating}, {devastating}, {withering}].
Devastating (a.) Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: {annihilative}, {annihilating}, {devastating}, {withering}].
Devastating (a.) Physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: {crushing}, {devastating}].
Devastation (n.) 毀壞 The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Devastation (n.) [ U ] (Damage) 毀滅性的，破壞性極大的 Damage and destruction.
// If disease is allowed to spread, it will cause widespread devastation.
// The storm left behind it a trail of devastation.
Devastation (n.) [ U ] (Strong feeling) 極度驚駭；（感情上的）重創 Feeling very shocked or upset.
// She had a look of utter devastation on her face.
Devastator (n.) [C] (pl. Devastors) 破壞者；蹂躪者 One who, or that which, devastates.
Devastavit (n.) (Law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. -- Bouvier.
Devastavit. A devastavit is a mis-management and waste by an executor, administrator, or other trustee of the estate and effects trusted to him, as such, by which a loss occurs.
Devastavit. It takes place by direct abuse, by mal-administration, and by neglect.
Devastavit. By direct abuse. This takes place when the executor, administrator, or trustee, sells, embezzles, or converts to his own use, the goods entrusted to him; Com. Dig. Administration, I 1; releases a claim due to the estate; 8 Bac. Abr. 700; Hob. 266; Cro. Eliz. 43; 7 John. R. 404; 9 Mass. 352; or surrenders a lease below its value. 2 John. Cas. 376; 3 P. Wms. 330. These instances sufficiently show that any willful waste of the property will be considered as a direct devastavit.
Devastavit. By mal-administration. Devastavit by mal-administration most frequently occurs by the payment of claims which were not due nor owing; or by paying others out of the order in which they ought to be paid; or by the payment of legacies before all the, debts have been satisfied. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 394; 5 Rawle, 266.
Devastavit. By neglect. Negligence on the part of an executor, administrator, or trustee, may equally tend to the waste of the estate, as the direct destruction or mal-administration of the assets, and render him guilty of a devastavit. The neglect to sell the goods at a fair price, within a reasonable time, or, if they are perishable goods, before they are wasted, will be a devastavit. And a neglect to collect a doubtful debt, which by proper exertion might have been collected, will be so considered. Bac. Ab. Executors, L.
Devastavit. The law requires from trustees, good faith and due diligence, the want of which is punished by making them responsible for the losses which may be sustained by the property entrusted to them when, therefore, a party has been guilty of a devastavit, he is required to. make up the loss out of his own estate. Vide Com. Dig. Administration, I; 11 Vin. Ab. 306; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 209; 1 Vern. 328; 7 East, R. 257 1 Binn. 194; 1 Serg. & Rawle, 241 1 John. R. 396; 1 Caines' Cas. 96 Bac. Ab. Executor, L; 11 Toull. 58, 59, n. 48.
Devata (n.) (Hind. Myth.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. [Written also dewata.]
Deve (a.) Deaf. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Develin (n.) (Zool.) The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]
Developed (imp. & p. p.) of Develop
Developing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop
Develop (v. t.) 發展，開發，研製；使成長；發揚，發揮；顯現出 To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
These serve to develop its tenets. -- Milner.
The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. -- The Century.
Develop (v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.
The sound developed itself into a real compound -- J. Peile.
All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. -- Owen.
Develop (v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
We must develop our own resources to the utmost. -- Jowett (Thucyd).
Develop (v. t.) (Math.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
Develop (v. t.) (Photog.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
To develop a curved surface on a plane (Geom.), To produce on the plane an equivalent surface, as if by rolling the curved surface so that all parts shall successively touch the plane.
Syn: To uncover; unfold; evolve; promote; project; lay open; disclose; exhibit; unravel; disentangle.