Dictionary: DEAT – DEBZ

► DEATH adj. deaf → 1821 Eng. dial.
int. 1. a vehement exclamation or imprecation → 1668
int. 2. an exclamation of approval or admiration → 1980 US students’ sl.
n. 1. an unattractive woman → 1980 US students’ sl.
n. 2. something excellent or outstanding → 1960 African-American sl.
n. 3. a terrible situation or event → 1980 US students’ sl.
vb. to be very appalling; to die for → 20C teen & high school sl.
► DEATH-ALIVE! int. an expletive → 1843 Ireland
► DEATH AND DAMNATION! int. a vehement exclamation or imprecation → 1604
► DEATH AND FURIES! int. an exclamation → M17 sl.
► DEATH BALLS n. balls of dust under furniture, which were thought to be harbingers of a death in the family → 1979 Amer. dial.
► DEATH BIRD n. a vulture → 1967 Amer. dial.
► DEATH-DING n. a death-blow → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEATH-DOING adj. doing to death, killing, murderous → 1652
► DEATH-DONE adj. killed, done to death → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEATH DROP n. butyl chloride → 20C drug culture sl.
► DEATH-EVIL n. a mortal disease → 1330 obs.
► DEATH FOR adj. very fond of → M19 sl.
► DEATHFUL adj. 1. full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly → 1240
adj. 2. subject to death, mortal → 1616 arch.
adj. 3. having the appearance of death; deathly → 1656
► DEATH-HEAD n. a fan of Goth music → 1990 sl.
► DEATH HOUSE n. the execution chamber in a prison → 20C US sl.
► DEATH-HUNTER n. 1. one who furnishes a newspaper with reports of deaths → 1738 sl. obs.
n. 2. an undertaker → L18 sl.
n. 3. one who visits battlefields in order to scavenge for clothes and other saleable items → E19 sl.
n. 4. a vendor of dying speeches or confessions → 1851 sl. obs.
► DEATHIFY vb. to deprive of life, force, or vitality → 1801
► DEATH-ILL n. mortal illness → 1425 obs.
► DEATHINESS n. the state or quality of being ‘deathy’; appearance of death → 1801
► DEATHIOPIA n. Ethiopia → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEATHLIKE adj. deadly, fatal, mortal → 1548 obs.
► DEATHLING n. one subject to death; a mortal → 1598
► DEATHLY adj. subject to death, mortal → 971 obs.
► DEATHLY-GROATS n. a person having a death-doomed look, or a sickly constitution → 1855 Eng. dial.
► DEATHLY-LIKE adj. very pale, deathly, colourless in complexion → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEATHNESS n. deafness → 1889 Eng. dial.
► DEATH O’ DAY n. anywhere considered by the speaker very far away or inaccessible → 1900 Aust. sl.
► DEATH ON adj. 1. very fond of → M19 sl.
adj. 2. dealing very strictly and severely with a situation or person; very good at dealing with → M19 sl., orig. US
adj. 3. finding abhorrent or being opposed to → 20C US sl.
► DEATH ORGAN n. a machine gun → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEATH RAIN n. a heavy rain, a downpour → 1949 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American
► DEATH-ROPE n. a gallows-rope → 1897 (Bk.)
► DEATH ROW n. the condemned cells → M19 US prison sl.
► DEATH SEAT n. the passenger seat in a motorcar, shown statistically to be the seat most likely to bring death to its occupier when the car crashes → 1960 sl.
► DEATH’S-FACE n. the head of Death figured as a skeleton; a human skull, a figure or representation of a skull, esp. as an emblem of mortality → 1623 obs.
► DEATH’S-HEAD n. 1. the head of Death figured as a skeleton; a human skull, a figure or representation of a skull, esp. as an emblem of mortality → 1596
n. (as ‘death’s head’) a miserable, impoverished, emaciated person → L18 sl.
► DEATH’S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK n. a poor, miserable, emaciated fellow → 1794
► DEATH SHOWER n. a heavy rain, a downpour → 1970 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American
► DEATH-SICK adj. sick unto death, mortally sick or ill → 1628
► DEATH’S MAILING n. a burial ground → 1839 Sc.
► DEATHSMAN n. a man who puts another to death; an executioner → 1589 arch.
► DEATH-STARK adj. as stiff as death → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEATH STICK n. a cigarette → 1969 Amer. jocular usage 
► DEATH-STRUCK adj. dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEATH-STRUCKEN adj. smitten with death, i.e. with a mortal wound or disease → 1622 obs.
► DEATH TRIP n. 1. a fantasy about death, often stimulated by drugs → 1960 sl.
n. 2. any situation considered potentially fatal or extremely life-threatening → 1960 sl.
► DEATH UPON PRODS n. a cadaverous person → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEATHWATCH n. a wake → 1968 Amer. dial.
► THE DEATH WATCH n. drama critics → 1942 Amer. theatrical sl. (Bk.)
► DEATH WISH n. phencyclidine → 1970 drug culture sl.
► DEATH-WORTHY adj. worthy or deserving of death → 1300
► DEATHY n. a death adder, a type of venomous snake → L19 Aust. sl. 
► DEAURATE adj. gilded, golden → 1430 obs.
vb. to gild over → 1562 obs.
► DEAURATION n. the act of gilding → 1658 obs.
► DEAVE vb. 1. to become deaf → 1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to deafen; to stun or stupefy with noise; to bewilder, to worry or confuse, esp. by ‘dinning’ in one’s ears → 1340 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to worry, to bother, to embarrass, to confuse → 1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to break with violence → 1847 Eng. dial.
► DEAVELY adj. lonely, solitary, unfrequented, retired, remote → 1611 Eng. dial.
► DEAVESOME adj. deafening → 1853 Sc.
► DEAVING adj. deafening, dinning; talkative → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. a deafening noise → 1827 Sc.
► DEAVY adj. deafening → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEB n. 1. a bed → M19 back-slang
n. 2. a debutante → 1917 sl., orig. US
n. 3. a female member of a street gang → 1940 US teen sl.
► DEBACCHATE vb. to rage or rave as a bacchanal; to revile one after the manner of drunkards → 1623 obs.
► DEBACCHATION n. a raging or madness → 1633 obs.
► DEBAG  vb. 1. to remove someone’s trousers, esp. as a joke → 1914 Brit. sl.
vb. 2. to reveal the sexual underside → 1990 sl.
► DEBAID n. delay → 1375 Sc. obs.
► DE-BALL vb. to castrate, lit. and fig. → 1950 sl.
► DEBARB vb. ‘to deprive of his beard’; to cut the beard off → 1727 obs.
► DEBARE vb. to strip down, to make quite bare → 1567 obs.
► DEBARK vb. to disembark → 1654
► DEBARKATION n. the act of landing from a ship; disembarkation → 1756
► DEBARKMENT n. the act of landing from a ship; disembarkation → 1742
► DEBARMENT n. the act of debarring or the fact of being debarred → 1655
► DEBARRASS vb. to disembarrass; to disencumber from anything that embarrasses → 1789
► DEBARRATION n. the act of debarring; debarrance → 1882 rare
► DEBASE vb. 1. to lower in estimation; to decry, to depreciate, to vilify → 1565 obs.
vb. 2. to lower in position, rank, or dignity; to abase → 1568 obs.
► DEBASEMENT n. abasement → 1593 obs.
► DEBASH vb. to abash → 1610 obs.
► DEBASURE n. debasement → 1683 obs.
► DEBATABLE adj. able to shift for oneself, able to get along, manage, or succeed by oneself → 1825 Sc.
► DEBATE n. 1. strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel → 1300 arch.
n. 2. lowering; depreciation; degradation → 1460 obs.
n. 3. physical strife, fight, conflict, struggle → 1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to fight, to contend, to strive, to quarrel, to wrangle → 1340 obs.
vb. 2. to abate, to fall off, to grow less → 1400 obs.
vb. 3. to abate; to beat down, to bring down, to lower, to reduce, to lessen, to diminish → 1450 obs.
vb. 4. to contest, to dispute; to contend or fight for; to carry on a fight or quarrel → 1489 arch.
vb. 5. to fight for, to defend, to protect → 1500 Sc. obs.
vb. 6. to depreciate, to decry → 1598 obs.
vb. 7. to subtract, to take away → 1658 obs.
► DEBATEFUL adj. 1. of persons: full of strife, contentious, quarrelsome → 1491 obs.
adj. 2. of things: pertaining to strife or contention → 1580 obs.
adj. 3. of things: controversial, contentious, uncertain, questionable → 1587 obs.
► DEBATEFULLY adv. with much wrangling, contentiously → 1611 obs.
► DEBATEMENT n. 1. debate, controversy, discussion, deliberation, disputation, argument → 1536 obs.
n. 2. abatement → 1550 obs.
n. 3. contention, strife, quarrelling → 1590 obs.
► DEBATER n. one who contends or strives; a quarrelsome or contentious person → 1388 obs.
► DEBATIVE adj. of the nature of debate or discussion → 1606 obs.
► DEBATOUS adj. quarrelsome, contentious → 1483 obs.
► DEBAUCH adj. debauched → 1616 obs.
n. one who is debauched → 1681 obs.
vb. 1. to turn or lead away, to entice, to seduce, from one to whom service or allegiance is due; e.g. soldiers or allies from a leader, a wife, or children from husband or father, etc.; usually with the connotation ‘lead astray, mislead’ → 1595 obs.
vb. 2. to vilify, to damage in reputation; to depreciate, to disparage → 1601 obs.
vb. 3. to dissipate, to spend prodigally, to squander → 1632 obs.
vb. 4. to damage or spoil in quality → 1633 obs.
► DEBAURD n. departure from the right way; excess; a transgression → 1671 obs.
► DEBAUSH adj. debauched → 1616 obs.
► DEBBIE n. a debutante → 1920 sl.
► DEBBIES’ DELIGHT n. an elegant and attractive young man in high society → 1934 Brit. sl., mainly derogatory
► DEBBLISH n. a penny → 1892 S. Afr. sl. (Bk.)
► DEBBY n. a debutante → 1917 sl., orig. US
► DEBELL vb. to put down in fight, to subdue, to vanquish, to conquer, to overcome; to expel by force of arms → 1555 obs.
► DEBELLATE vb. to overcome in war; to conquer, subdue, vanquish → 1611 obs.
► DEBELLATION n. a vanquishing or reducing by force of arms; a conquering, defeating, conquest → 1526 obs.
► DEBELLATIVE  adj. tending to overthrow or reduce by war; warlike → 1651 obs.
► DEBELLATOR n. a subduer, a vanquisher, a victor, a conqueror → 1713 obs.
► DEBELLISH vb. to rob of beauty; to mar the beauty of, to disfigure → 1610 obs.
► DEBENTURE n. acknowledgement of indebtedness; obligation; debt → 1609 obs.
► DEBILE adj. weak, feeble, suffering from debility → 1536 obs.
► DEBILITANT adj. debilitating → 1882
► DEBILITATE adj. enfeebled; feeble → 1552 obs.
► DEBILITE vb. to debilitate, to render weak, to weaken, to enfeeble → 1483 obs.
► DEBILITIES n. an instance of weakness → 1533 obs.
► DEBILITUDE n. debility, weakness → 1669 obs.
► DEB IT! int. an oath → 1888 Eng. dial.
► DEBIT n. something that is owed; a debt → 1450 obs.
► DEBITE adj. that is owed or due → 1678 obs.
n. a deputy, a lieutenant → 1482 obs.
► DEBITOR n. a debtor → 1484 obs.
► DEBITORY n. a statement or item of debt → 1575 obs.
► DEBITRICE n. a female debtor → 1588 obs.
► DEBITY n. a deputy, a substitute → 1467 obs.
► DEBLAT n. a little devil → 1473 obs.
► DEBLATERATE vb. to babble much, to prate → 1623
► DEBLATERATION n. chattering; talkativeness → 1817
► DEBLAZE vb. to announce, to proclaim → 1640 obs.
► DEBLAZON vb. to announce, to proclaim → 1621 obs.
► DEBLERIE n. an evil spirit, a demon → 1325 obs.
► DEBOISE adj. debauched → 1632 obs.
vb. 1. to spend prodigally, to squander → 1632 obs.
vb. 2. to leave one’s employment; to take recreation, to amuse oneself → 1633 obs.
vb. 3. to corrupt morally; to deprave by sensuality → 1654 obs.
► DEBOIST adj. 1.  debauched, dissolute → 1604 obs.
adj. 2.  damaged → 1641 obs.
n. a debauchee → 1657 obs.
► DEBOISTLY adv. debauchedly; corruptly → 1604 obs.
► DEBOISTNESS n. the state of being debauched → 1628 obs.
► DEBOLISH vb. to demolish, to sweep away → 1615 obs.
► DE-BOLLOCK vb. to castrate, usually in figurative sense of hurting or punishing severely → 1960 sl.
► DEBONAIR adj. of gentle disposition, mild, meek; gracious, kindly; courteous, affable → 1225 obs.
n. 1. a kind, gracious person → 1366 obs.
n. 2. graciousness of manner → 1697 obs.
► DEBONAIRSHIP n. debonair character; mildness, gentleness, meekness; graciousness, kindness; courtesy, affability → 1240 obs.
► DEBONAIRTY n. debonair character; mildness, gentleness, meekness; graciousness, kindness; courtesy, affability → 1225 obs.
► DEBONARIOUS adj. debonair; courteous → 1485 obs.
► DEBONARITY n. debonair character; mildness, gentleness, meekness; graciousness, kindness; courtesy, affability → 1225 obs.
► DEBONARY adj. debonair, courteous → 1402 obs.
► DEBOOST n. the slowing down of a spacecraft by the firing of a retro-rocket → 1966 
vb. to slow down a spacecraft by firing a retro-rocket → 1967 
► DEBORD n. a departure from right way → 1671 Sc. obs.
vb. 1. to go out of bounds, to deviate; to go beyond bounds, to go to excess → 1620 obs.
vb. 2. of a body of water: to pass beyond its borders or banks; to overflow → 1632 obs.
► DEBORDING n. going beyond bounds, excess → 1635 obs.
► DEBORDMENT n. going beyond bounds, excess → 1603 obs.
► DEBOSH n. 1. excessive indulgence, a debauch; extravagance, waste → 1828 Sc.
n. 2. a person who indulges in anything to excess; a debauchee → 1866 Sc.
vb. to indulge oneself in the use of anything to excess → 1731 Sc.
► DEBOSHED adj. debauched; worthless → 1599 obs. exc. Sc.
► DEBOSHING adj. given to excessive indulgence; wasteful → 19C Sc.
► DEBOUT vb. to thrust out, to expel, to oust → 1619 obs.
► DEBOUTEMENT n. a thrusting forth, expulsion → 1481 obs.
► DEBOWEL vb. to disembowel → 1375 obs.
► DEBRAID vb. to snatch down → 1388 obs.
► DEBREAK vb. to break down → 1382 obs. 
► DEBRUISE vb. to break down, to break in pieces, to crush, to smash → 1297 obs.
► DEBS n. 1. depressants, tranquillizers, barbiturates → 1970 US drug culture sl.
n. 2. amphetamines → 2000 US drug culture sl.
n. 3. MDMA tablets → 2000 US drug culture sl.
► DEBS’ DELIGHT n. an elegant and attractive young man in high society → 1934 Brit. sl., mainly derogatory
► DEBT adj. owed, due, owing → 1340 obs.
n. that which one is bound or ought to do; one’s duty → 1450 Sc. obs.
► DEBTABLE adj. under pecuniary obligation, chargeable → 1516 obs.
► DEBT-BIND vb. to bind by obligation, to render indebted → 1608 obs.
► DEBT-BOUND adj. 1. under obligation, bound by duty, obliged → 1513 obs.
adj. 2. of things: obligatory, due, bounden → 1588 obs.
► DEBT-BOUNDEN adj. under obligation, bound by duty, obliged → 1553 obs.
► DEBTED adj. 1. of things: owed, due → 1375 obs.
adj. 2. of persons: under obligation; indebted → 1425 obs.
► DEBTFUL adj. 1. owed, bounden, due; dutiful → 1425 obs., chiefly Sc.
adj. 2. indebted → 1649 obs., chiefly Sc.
► DEBTFULLY adv. duly, dutifully → 1425 Sc. obs.
► DEBT OF NATURE n. the necessity of dying, death → 1812
► DEBT TO NATURE n. the necessity of dying, death → 1635
► DEBUCCINATE vb. to report or trumpet abroad → 1623 obs.
► DEBUG vb. to remove faults from a machine, a system, or now most commonly, a computer or its software → 1940 sl.
► DEBUGGERABLE adj. disreputable, unpleasant → 1930 sl.
► DEBULLIATE vb. to bubble or boil over → 1656 obs.
► DEBULLITION n. a bubbling or boiling over → 1727 obs.
► DEBURSE vb. to pay out, to disburse → 1529 Sc. obs.
► DEBURSEMENT n. disbursement → 1637 Sc. obs.
► DEBURSING n. disbursement → 1598 Sc. obs.
► DEBUSS vb. to get out of an omnibus → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► DEBUT n. a first homosexual experience → 1950 sl.
► DEBUTANTE n. 1. a woman serving her first jail sentence → 1930 US criminals’ sl.
n. 2. someone new to the homosexual life → 1950 sl.