DESTITUTION
DESTITUTION, noun Want; absence of a thing; a state in which something is wanted or not possessed; poverty.
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DESTROY
DESTROY, verb transitive [Latin To pile, to build.]1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as...
DESTROYABLE
DESTROYABLE, adjective That may be destroyed.Plants scarcely destroyable by the weather.
DESTROYED
DESTROYED, participle passive Demolished; pulled down; ruined; annihilated; devoured; swept away; etc.
DESTROYER
DESTROYER, noun One who destroys, or lays waste; one who kills a man, or an animal, or who ruins a country, cities, etc.
DESTROYING
DESTROYING, participle present tense Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.DESTROYING, noun Destruction.
DESTRUCT
DESTRUCT, fro destroy, is not used.
DESTRUCTIBILITY
DESTRUCTIBILITY, noun The quality of being capable of destruction.
DESTRUCTIBLE
DESTRUCTIBLE, adjective [Latin] Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
DESTRUCTION
DESTRUCTION, noun1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. destruction consists in...
DESTRUCTIVE
DESTRUCTIVE, adjective Causing destruction; having the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; pernicious; with of or to; as a destructive fire or famine. Intemperance is d...
DESTRUCTIVELY
DESTRUCTIVELY, adverb With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to destroy; as destructively lewd or intemperate.
DESTRUCTIVENESS
DESTRUCTIVENESS, noun The quality of destroying or ruining.
DESTRUCTOR
DESTRUCTOR, noun A destroyer; a consumer. [Not used.]
DESUDATION
DESUDATION, noun [Latin, to sweat.] A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, succeeded by an eruption of pustles, called heat-pimples.
DESUETUDE
DESUETUDE, noun [Latin] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom or fashion. Habit is contracted by practice, and lost by desuetude Words in every langua...
DESULPHURATE
DESULPHURATE, verb transitive To deprive of sulphur.
DESULPHURATED
DESULPHURATED, participle passive Deprived of sulphur.
DESULPHURATING
DESULPHURATING, participle present tense Depriving of sulphur.
DESULPHURATION
DESULPHURATION, noun The act or operation of depriving of sulphur.
DESULTORILY
DESULTORILY, adverb [See Desultory.] In a desultory manner; without method; loosely.
DESULTORINESS
DESULTORINESS, noun A desultory manner; unconnectedness; a passing from one thing to another without order or method.
DESULTORY
DESULTORY, adjective [Latin, to leap.]1. Leaping; passing from one thing or subject to another, without order or natural connection; unconnected; immethodical; as a desultory co...
DESUME
DESUME, verb transitive [Latin] To take from; to borrow. [Not in use.]
DETACH
DETACH, verb transitive [See Attach.]1. To separate or disunite; to disengage; to part from; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from the ...
DETACHED
DETACHED, participle passive1. Separated; parted from; disunited; drawn and sent on a separate service.2.adjective Separate; as detached parcels or portions.
DETACHING
DETACHING, participle present tense Separating; parting from; drawing and sending on a separate employment.