English Wordbook/D
From The Anglish Moot
Staff D of the English Wordbook.
| dairy | n | deyhouse, milkhouse |
| damage | n | harm |
| damage | vb | wreck, fordo, shend, |
| damaged | adj | broken, dented, unsound |
| damaging | adj | harmful, hurtful, baleful, baneful |
| dance | v | tumb |
| danger | n | threat |
| dangerous | adj | threatening, harmful |
| data | n | put, rawput, meteworth(s), ongift(s), worth(s) |
| database | n | putbank |
| dative (case) | n | giver namefall |
| daub | vb | spread, besmear |
| dear | n | beloved, darling, dear, drout, lief, love |
| dear | adj | beloved, darling, dear, drout, lief, love |
| debatable | adj | moot |
| debut | n | beginning, coming-out, first showing, try-out |
| decade | n | ten years, tenyear |
| decapitate | vb | behead, unhead |
| decay | v | rot, fall away, wane, wither, abreeth |
| deceased | adj | dead |
| deceive | vb | mislead, fop, outwit, wimple |
| December | n | Ereyule, holy-month |
| decent | adj | good, upstanding |
| decentralization | n | mightspreading |
| deception | n | misleading of, falsehood, clouding, cunning, darkening, hoodwinking, misbelief, airy-nothing, snow job, |
| decide | vb | choose, settle on, make up one's mind, bychoose |
| decision | n | choice, bychoice |
| decisive | adj | all-out, out-and-out, outright, straight-out, overwhelming, quick, speedy, swift, telling, weighty |
| declare | vb | say forth, broadcast, come out with, speak, speak out, swear, tell, utter, make known, bring out, set down, stand for |
| declination | n | forbend |
| decline | vb | wane, slump, lessen, weaken, flag |
| decoction | n | Hell's broth(infernal); |
| decorate | vb | deck, bedeck, beset, bestud, trim, tool, gild |
| decrease | vb | shrink, lower, wane, lessen |
| decrepit | vb | timeworn |
| deer | n | hart |
| de facto | n | true, truly |
| defame | vb | file, shend, besmirch, befile |
| default | vb | gainwithershins |
| defeat | n | loss, licking |
| defeat | vb | win against, overcome, beat, overrun, overwhelm, overthrow |
| defecate | vb | drite |
| defenestrate | vb | out from a window throw |
| defense | n | weir |
| deficiency | n | shortcoming, lack, shorthood |
| deficient | adj | wanting, missing, lacking |
| deficit | n | shortfall |
| defile | vb | befile, besmite |
| define | vb | mark, nail-tailed, narrow, set out |
| deform | vb | misshape |
| deformed | adj | misshapen, crippled, ill-made, ill-shaped, misbegotten, twisted, thrawn |
| deformity | n | misshapenness |
| defragmenteren | n | misbreaking |
| defraud | vb | swindle |
| defrost | vb | thaw |
| defy | vb | thwart, withstand, hold, dare |
| degrade | vb | bemean |
| degree | n | height, reach, rung, stair, stand, standing, strength |
| deify | vb | begod(att'd) |
| deity | n | god |
| delay | n | holdup, lag |
| delay | vb | forestall, stall, tarry |
| deliberate | adj | willful, meaningful |
| delight | n | gladness, lust |
| delightful | adj | bewitching, witching, thrilling, enthralling, taking, lovely, fair, good, heavenly, winsome, dainty, toothsome |
| delirious | adj | bewildered, mind-wandering, dwale |
| delude | vb | mislead |
| deluge | n | flood, rainstorm, cloudburst, overflowing, drenching; "The Deluge" The Flood, Sinflood |
| demeanour | n | jib |
| dementia | n | madness, mindloss |
| demilitarized | adj | unlandmighted |
| democracy | n | folkwield, folkship |
| demodulation | n | backrighting |
| demograph | n | folk outline |
| demolish | vb | tear down |
| demolition | n | wipeout |
| demon | n | fiend, hellfiend, mare |
| demonstrate | vb | kithe, show, forshow, show-how |
| dendrite | n | sinewtwig |
| denial | n | andsake |
| denigrate | vb | slight, belittle, beswart, blackwash |
| denigration | n | slighting, belittling |
| denote | n | betoken |
| dénouement | n | unravelling |
| dense | adj | thick, thight |
| dentist | n | toothleech (calque from Danish 'tandlæge', Icelandic 'tannlæknir'), toothsmith, toothdoctor |
| denude | vb | unclothe, downclothe, get naked, strip of clothes, strip naked |
| deny | vb | gainsay, naysay, withhold, asake, witherspeak |
| deodorant | n | missreeker, reekkiller |
| deoxyribonucleic acid | n | lifetwine |
| depart | vb | wite, afare, go away, leave, outfare, outgo, set off, set out, put forth |
| departing | n & adj | witing, afaring, outgoing, waygoing, outward-bound, outbound |
| department | n | offdealing, bedealing |
| depend | vb | hang on, rest on, trust in |
| depict | vb | show |
| depreciate | vb | cheapen, lessen, underworthe, write off |
| depression | n | moodsink, blues, downer, downheartedness, glumness, woefulness |
| deprivation | n | bereaving, loss, need |
| deprivation | n | want, |
| deprive | vb | bedeal, bereave, benumb, strip |
| deracinate | vb | uproot |
| deranged | adj | crazed, mad, moonstruck, wood |
| deregulation | n | [rule]lessening |
| derive | vb | come from, bring from, spring from, stem from |
| dermatology | n | hidelore, skinlore |
| dermis | n | skin, hide, rind, hackle |
| descend | vb | fall, come down, slope, bear |
| descendent | n | offshoot, offspring, afterbear(by analogy to forebear), aftercomer, afterling(from O.E.) |
| descent | n | downcoming, downgoing |
| describe | vb | tell of, speak of, outline, set forth, set out, inword |
| description | n | tale, inwording, drawing |
| desecrate | vb | unhallow, downhallow |
| desert | vb | forsake |
| desert | n | dustbowl, wilderness, wasteland, sandiland, wasteland, waterless feld, tirstland |
| deserving | adj | worthy |
| design | vb | lay out, draft, outline, set out |
| design | n | layout, draft, outline |
| designate | vb | earmark, mark, show, call, name, dub, nickname, choose |
| desinfectant | n | misstainer |
| desire | vb | crave, wish, lust, yearn, long, hanker (for, after), list |
| desirous | adj | lief |
| desolate | adj | lonely, alone, friendless |
| despair | n | hopelessness, wanhope |
| desperate | adj | hopeless, forlorn |
| despise | vb | forthink, hate, loathe |
| despite | prep | notwithstanding |
| dessert | n | afters, pudding, sweet |
| destiny | n | lot |
| destroy | vb | smite, throw down, tear down, wrack, wreck, fordo, forlese (pt -lore, pp. -lorn) |
| destruction | n | wrack, wipeout |
| detective | n | sleuth, bloodhound |
| deteriorate | vb | worsen, get worse |
| determine | vb | settle, set, lay down |
| detest | vb | hate, loathe |
| devalue | vb | downworthe |
| develop | vb | grow, build, unfold |
| developed, poorly | adj | wan-thriven |
| development | n | becoming, unfolding, growth, blooming, blossoming, futhering, spreading, unfolding, upshot, upbuilding |
| developmental | adj | becomesome, growthsome, building, building up, flowering, greatening, outgrowing, raising, readying, futhering, upgrowing, unfolding, waxing |
| devious | adj | underhand |
| devolve | vb | wend into, hand over |
| devote | vb | betake |
| devour | vb | eat, eat up, fret, fret up, gobble up |
| dexterity | n | deftness, sleight, handcleverness |
| dexterous | adj | deft, skillful, right-handed |
| diabolic | n | devilish |
| diacritic | n | tittle |
| diafragma | n | midrif |
| diagonal | adj | aslant, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping, aslope |
| dialect | n | byleid |
| diameter | n | straightspan, circlewidth |
| diameter, inner | n | bore |
| diameter, outer | n | girth |
| diaphanous | adj | sheer |
| diarrhoea | n | skitter |
| diary | n | daybook |
| diaspora | n | forspliting, the wanderings, spreading out of, the earth-walking of |
| dictator | n | strongman |
| dictionary | n | wordbook |
| diet | n | food, fare |
| difference | n | unlikeness, anotherness |
| different | adj | unlike, unsame |
| different | adv | other, otherwise |
| differently | adv | otherwise |
| difficult | adj | hard, tough, unyielding, burdensome |
| diffident | adj | shy |
| digit | n | finger, toe |
| digital | adj | scorely |
| dignity | n | worth, selfworth |
| dilapidated | adj | tumbledown |
| dilate | v | abreed |
| diligence | n | hard work, graft, carefulness |
| diligent | adj | hardworking, careful |
| diminish | vb | lessen, lower, wane, dwindle, dwine, fordwine |
| diminutive | adj | tiny, ,impish, small, little |
| diminutive | suffix | let |
| dimorphism | n | twayshapenness. |
| dinosaur | n | forebird |
| diocese | n | bishopric, bishopshire |
| diploma | n | lore sickernote |
| direct | adj | rode, straight, straightforward, unbending, head-on, forthright, open, outspoken, |
| direct | vb | lead, steer, beright, right |
| directory | n | map, [file]list |
| dis- | pref | mis- |
| discard | vb | get rid of, deep-six |
| discredit | vb | smirch |
| disable | vb | cripple, afounder, to make lame |
| disabled | adj | handicapped, lame, halt |
| disadvantage | n | drawback, downside |
| disadvantaged | adj | handicapped, hindered |
| disappear | vb | unkythe, unsighten, fordwindle |
| disappoint | vb | sadden, let down, balk, cast down, hinder, thwart |
| disarm | vb | unweapon |
| disarrange | vb | rumple, tousle |
| disaster | n | great loss, ill-hap, mother earth's wrath, banefall, banespill, baneburst, banestrike, grimming |
| disastrous | adj | baneful, deadly, dreadful, black, hapless, harmful, doomfull, wrackful |
| discard | vb | throw away, ditch |
| disclose | vb | bare, show, tell |
| disconcerting | adj | offputting, upsetting |
| discontinue | vb | end |
| discourse | n | talk, speech |
| discourse | vb | talk, speak |
| discover | vb & phr | find, come upon, happen upon, beget, behold, bring to light, ken, get hold of, get wise to, see, witness, learn of. hear of, |
| discovery | n | find, finding |
| discriminate | n | treat unjustly, |
| discuss | vb | talk anent |
| disease | n | sickness, illness, wanhaleness |
| disease, skin | n | tetter |
| disfigure | vb | mar, misshape |
| disgrace | n & vb | shame, shend |
| disgusting | adj | loathely, wlatsome, foul, gruesome, ghastly, rank |
| dish | n | bowl, flatbowl |
| dishevel | vb | tousle, rumple, tangle |
| disheveled | adj | tousled, thrummy |
| disinclined | adj | loath |
| disinfect | vb | unsmittle |
| disinfectant | adj | unsmittlesome |
| disinfectant | n | unsmittler |
| dislike | vb | mislike |
| dismember | vb | alithe |
| dismiss | vb | snub, slight, sack, fire |
| disobedient | adj | unhold, unhearsome, hardheaded, stubborn, wayward |
| disordered | adj | unsided, throughanother |
| disperse | vb | scatter, spread, strew |
| displace | vb | uproot |
| display | n | reading window |
| disposable | adj | throwaway |
| disposal | n | deep-six |
| disprove | vb | belie |
| dispute | vb | call out against, moot, belie, half-believe |
| disqualify | vb | unfit |
| disregard | vb | overlook, forheed |
| disruption | n | upheaval |
| dissect | vb | cut up |
| dissemble | v | atlike |
| dissolution | n | breakup |
| dissonance | n | pitchclash |
| distance | n | span, stretch, farness |
| distant | adj | aferron, far, faraway, far off, |
| distant2 | adj | aloof, standoffish, |
| distilate | n | of-burn, forsteam |
| distort | vb | bewray, twist, throw, warp |
| distract | vb | misdraw, misdrag, mislead, bewilder, unsettle, to-draw, to-drag |
| distracted | adj | to-drawn, misdrawn, of-drawn, of-lead |
| distraught | adj | woeful, awondered, amazed |
| distress | vb | harry, harrow, unfrith, to-slite, to-tear |
| distribute | vb | deal out, hand out, give out, fordeal, bedeal, of-give, out-mete |
| distribution | n | fordealing, bedealing, out-meting, of-giving, forspreading |
| district | n | shire, riding, leet |
| distrust | vb | forthink, mistrust |
| disturb | vb | stir |
| disturbance | n | roughhouse, stirring |
| diurnal | adj | daily, dayish |
| diverse | adj | manifold, sundry, manikind |
| divert | n | of-lead, |
| divide | n | split, gap |
| divide | vb | shed, split, sunder, share, of-mete, to-tweme, deal |
| divination | n | weedgle |
| divine | adj | godly, holy, weedgly |
| division | n | shedding |
| doctor, medical | n | healer, healthsmith, leech |
| document | n | writ, wrote, |
| dogma | n | beliefteaching |
| dolphine | n | seaswine |
| domain | n | lorddom |
| domestic | vb | inland(politics), house, household, every-day |
| domesticate | vb | tame, houseteach, houserede |
| dominate | vb | (lord it over), (have the say), (have clout), (keep down), (keep under), lead, (have might over), (have sway over), enthrall, bestride, top, outtop, overtop, (rise above), own |
| donate | vb | bestow, give, overgive, yield |
| donation | n | gift, yeld |
| doppelgänger | n | look-alike, evil look-alike, ill-boding look-alike |
| dormant | adj | sleeping, drousing |
| dormitory | n | sleepstow, bedroom |
| dorsal | adj | back |
| dosage | n | muchness |
| double | n | twosome, twin |
| double | vb | twicen, twicefold, twofold |
| double stack | adj | two-row, staggered |
| doubt | n | qualm, twining, unbelief, fear, dread, misgivings, wonder |
| douse | vb | drench |
| dozen | adj | twelve |
| dozen | fig | tens |
| draconian | adj | harsh, tight, overbearing |
| dragon | n | firedrake |
| dragonfly | n | Adder-fly |
| dramatic | adj | lively, startling, bustling, uproarish, striking, stirring, quickening, thrilling, overdone, underplayed, |
| dramatist | n | playwright |
| dress | vb | clothe, trim, ready, don, doff, agraith |
| dual | adj | twin, twofold |
| dub | vb | name, call |
| dubious | adj & phr | hard to believe, of two minds, fickle, dark, shifty, ill-gotten, trustless, untrustworthy,unsettled |
| due | adj | owing |
| duel | n | twifight, twistruggle |
| duet | n | twising |
| dugong | n | seacow |
| duke | n | alderman |
| dunce | n | mouth breather |
| during | prep | throughout, bewhile |
| Dutch | adj | Netherlandish, Hollandish |
| Dutchman | n | Netherlander, Hollander |
| duvet | n | bedspread, eiderdown |
| dynamic | n | movefull |
| dysentery | n | redfever |
| dysfunctional | adj | unworking, badworking |
| dyslexic | n | wordblind |
