DEATH-BED
DEATH-BED, noun deth'-bed. The bed on which a person dies or is confined in his last sickness.DEATH'-BODING, adjective Portending death.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DEATH-DARTING
DEATH-DARTING, adjective Darting or inflicting death.
DEATH-WATCH
DEATH'-WATCH, noun A small insect whose ticking is weakly supposed, by superstitious and ignorant people, to prognosticate death.
DEATHFUL
DEATH'FUL, adjective Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive.These eyes behold the deathful scene.
DEATHFULNESS
DEATH'FULNESS, noun Appearance of death.
DEATHLESS
DEATH'LESS, adjective Immortal; not subject to death, destruction or extinction; as deathless beings; deathless fame.
DEATHLIKE
DEATH'LIKE, adjective1. Resembling death; gloomy; still; calm; quiet; peaceful; motionless; like death in horror or in stillness; as deathlike slumbers.2. Resembling death; cada...
DEATHS-DOOR
DEATH'S-DOOR, noun A near approach to death; the gates of death.
DEATHS-MAN
DEATH'S-MAN, noun An executioner; a hangman.DEATH'-SHADOWED, adjective Surrounded by the shades of death.DEATH'-TOKEN, noun That which indicates approaching death.
DEATHWARD
DEATH'WARD, adverb Toward death.
DEAURATE
DEAU'RATE, verb transitive To gild.DEAU'RATE, adjective Gilded.
DEBACLE
DEBAC'LE, noun A breaking or bursting forth.The geological deluge, which is supposed to have swept the surface of the earth, and to have conveyed the fragments of rocks, and the...
DEBAR
DEB'AR, verb transitive To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; as, we are not debarred from any rational enj...
DEBARK
DEB'ARK, verb transitive To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft, and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery.
DEBARKATION
DEBARKA'TION, noun The act of disembarking.
DEBARKED
DEB'ARKED, participle passive Removed to land from on board a ship or boat.
DEBARKING
DEB'ARKING, participle present tense Removing from a ship to the land; going from on board a vessel.
DEBARRED
DEB'ARRED, participle passive Hindered from approach, entrance or possession.
DEBARRING
DEB'ARRING, participle present tense Preventing from approach, entrance or enjoyment.
DEBASE
DEBA'SE, verb transitive1. To reduce from a higher to a lower state or rank, in estimation.The drunkard debases himself and his character.Intemperance and debauchery debase men ...
DEBASED
DEBA'SED, participle passive Reduced in estimated rank; lowered in estimation; reduced in purity, fineness, quality or value; adulterated; degraded; rendered mean.
DEBASEMENT
DEBA'SEMENT, noun The act of debasing; degradation; reduction of purity, fineness, quality or value; adulteration; a state of being debased; as debasement of character, of our f...
DEBASER
DEBA'SER, noun One who debases or lowers in estimation, or in value; one who degrades or renders mean; that which debases.
DEBASING
DEBA'SING, participle present tense1. Reducing in estimation or worth; adulterating; reducing in purity or elegance; degrading; rendering mean.2.adjective Lowering; tending to d...
DEBATABLE
DEBA'TABLE, adjective That may be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; as a debatable question.
DEBATE
DEBATE, noun1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to pr...
DEBATED
DEBA'TED, participle passive Disputed; argued; discussed.