English Wordbook/D

From The Anglish Moot

Staff D of the English Wordbook.

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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
database	n	putbank
dative (case)	n	giver namefall
daub	vb	spread, besmear
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, geck, belie, outwit, wimple
december	n	Ereyule
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
decrease	vb	shrink, lower, wane, lessen
decrepit	vb	timeworn
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	v	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
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
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	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
departing	n & adj	witing, afaring, outgoing, waygoing, outward-bound, outbound
department	n	ofdealing, 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, illth
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
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
desecrate	vb	unhallow, downhallow
desert	vb	forsake
desert	n	dustbowl, wilderness, wasteland, sandiland, wasteland, waterless feld, tirstland
deserving	adj	worthy
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
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
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,
devour	vb	eat, eat up, fret, fret up, gobble up
dexterity	n	deftness, sleight, handcleverness
dexterous	adj	deft, skillful
diabolic	n	devilish
diacritic	n	tittle
diafragma	n	midrif
diagonal	adj	aslant, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping, aslope
dialect	n	byleid
diameter	n	straightspan, circlewidth
diarrhoea	n	skitter
diary	n	daybook
diaspora	n	forspliting
dictator	n	strongman
dictionary	n	wordbook
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-
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
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
disease, skin	n	tetter
disfigure	vb	mar, misshape
disgrace	n & vb	shame, shend
disgusting	adj	wlatsome, foul, gruesome, ghastly
dish	n	bowl, flatbowl
dishevel	vb	tousle, rumple, tangle
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
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
divine	adj	godly, holy
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
dormant	adj	sleeping, drousing
dormitory	n	sleepstow, bedroom
dorsal	adj	back
dosage	n	muchness
double	n	twosome, twin
double	vb	twicen, twicefold, twofold
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
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, unstable, unsettled
due	adj	owing
duel	n	twifight, twistruggle
duet	n	twising
duke	n	alderman
during	prep	throughout, bewhile
Dutch	adj	Netherlandish, Hollandish
Dutchman	n	Netherlander, Hollander
duvet	n	bedspread, eiderdown
dynamic	n	movefull
dysentery	n	redfever
dysfunctional	n	unworking
dyslexic	n	wordblind