Matching Words
2617 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Defiling
- verb - make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
- spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Demilune
- - A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
Demolish
- verb - defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
- Destroy
- destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
- humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
- Pull down
Dephlegm
- - To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
Depilate
- verb - remove body hair; "epilate her legs"
Depilous
- adjective - completely hairless
Depolish
- - To remove the polish or glaze from.
Derelict
- adjective - a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- failing in what duty requires;
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
Desalted
- verb - remove salt from; "desalinate water"