Webster's Dictionary 1828

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DEPREDATING

DEPREDATING, participle present tense Plundering; robbing; pillaging.

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DEPREDATION

DEPREDATION, noun1. The act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging.2. Waste; consumption; a taking away by any act of violence. The sea often makes depredations on the land. Inte...

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DEPREDATOR

DEPREDATOR, noun One who plunders, or pillages; a spoiler; a waster.

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DEPREDATORY

DEPREDATORY, adjective Plundering; spoiling; consisting in pillaging.

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DEPREHEND

DEPREHEND, verb transitive [Latin To take or seize.]1. To catch; to take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as a person committing an unlawful act.2. To detect; to discover; to ...

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DEPREHENDED

DEPREHENDED, participle passive Taken by surprise; caught; seized; discovered.

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DEPREHENDING

DEPREHENDING, participle present tense Taking unawares; catching; seizing; discovering.

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DEPREHENSIBLE

DEPREHENSIBLE, adjective That may be caught, or discovered.

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DEPREHENSIBLENESS

DEPREHENSIBLENESS, noun Capableness of being caught or discovered.

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DEPREHENSION

DEPREHENSION, noun A catching or seizing; a discovery.

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DEPRESS

DEPRESS, verb transitive [Latin To press.]1. To press down; to press to a lower state or position; as, to depress the end of a tube, or the muzzle of a gun.2. To let fall; to br...

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DEPRESSING

DEPRESSING, participle present tense Pressing down; lowering in place; letting fall; sinking; dejecting; abasing; impoverishing; rendering languid.

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DEPRESSION

DEPRESSION, noun1. The act of pressing down; or the state of being pressed down; a low state.2. A hollow; a sinking or falling in of a surface; or a forcing inwards; as roughnes...

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DEPRESSIVE

DEPRESSIVE, adjective Able or tending to depress or cast down.

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DEPRESSOR

DEPRESSOR, noun1. He that presses down; an oppressor.2. In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or draws down the part to which it is attached; as the depressor of the lower jaw, or...

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DEPRIVABLE

DEPRIVABLE, adjective That may be deprived.A chaplain shall be deprivable by the founder, not by the bishop.

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DEPRIVATION

DEPRIVATION, noun1. The act of depriving; a taking away.2. A state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement by loss of friends or of goods.3. In law, the act of divesting a bi...

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DEPRIVE

DEPRIVE, verb transitive [Latin To take away.]1. To take from; to bereave of something possessed or enjoyed; followed by of; as, to deprive a man of sight; to deprive one of str...

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DEPRIVED

DEPRIVED, participle passive Bereft; divested; hindered; stripped of office or dignity; deposed; degraded.

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DEPRIVEMENT

DEPRIVEMENT, noun The state of losing or being deprived.

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DEPRIVER

DEPRIVER, noun He or that which deprives or bereaves.

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DEPRIVING

DEPRIVING, participle present tense Bereaving; taking away what is possessed; divesting; hindering from enjoying; deposing.

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DEPTH

DEPTH, noun1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards. The depth of a river may be ten feet. The...

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DEPULSION

DEPULSION, noun [Latin To drive.] A driving or thrusting away.

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DEPULSORY

DEPULSORY, adjective Driving or thrusting away; averting.

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DEPURATE

DEPURATE, verb transitive To purify; to free from impurities, heterogeneous matter or feculence; a chimical term.

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DEPURATED

DEPURATED, participle passive Purified from heterogeneous matter, or from impurities.