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Dentoid
- - Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.
Denuded
- verb - lay bare; "denude a forest"
- without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
Deodand
- - A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
Deponed
- verb - make a deposition; declare under oath
Deposed
- verb - force to leave (an office)
- make a deposition; declare under oath
Deputed
- verb - appoint as a substitute
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- transfer power to someone
Derated
- verb - lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus
Derided
- verb - treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
Derived
- verb - come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- formed or developed from something else; not original; "the belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived"- John Dewey
- obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden"
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction