Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
Defeat (v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
Defeat (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
Defeat (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
Defeature (n.) Overthrow; defeat.
Defeature (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Defeatured (p. p.) Changed in features; deformed.
Defecate (a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Defecated (imp. & p. p.) of Defecate
Defecating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defecate
Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
Defecate (v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
Defecate (v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.
Defecate (v. i.) To void excrement.
Defecation (n.) The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
Defecation (n.) The act or process of voiding excrement.
Defecator (n.) That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.
Defect (n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Defect (n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
Defect (v. i.) To fail; to become deficient.
Defect (v. t.) To injure; to damage.
Defectibility (n.) Deficiency; imperfection.
Defectible (a.) Liable to defect; imperfect.
Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
Defectionist (n.) One who advocates or encourages defection.
Defectious (a.) Having defects; imperfect.
Defective (a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
Defective (a.) Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
Defectuosity (n.) Great imperfection.
Defectuous (a.) Full of defects; imperfect.
Defedation (n.) The act of making foul; pollution.
Defence (n. & v. t.) See Defense.
Defended (imp. & p. p.) of Defend
Defending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defend
Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Defend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.
Defend (v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
Defendable (a.) Capable of being defended; defensible.
Defendant (a.) Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
Defendant (a.) Making defense.
Defendant (n.) One who defends; a defender.
Defendant (n.) A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff.
Defendee (n.) One who is defended.
Defender (n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
Defendress (n.) A female defender.
Defensative (n.) That which serves to protect or defend.
Defense (n.) Alt. of Defence
Defence (n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
Defence (n.) That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
Defence (n.) Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
Defence (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
Defence (n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
Defense (v. t.) To furnish with defenses; to fortify.
Defenseless (a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
Defenser (n.) Defender.
Defensibility (n.) Capability of being defended.
Defensible (a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
Defensible (a.) Capable of offering defense.
Defensibleness (n.) Capability of being defended; defensibility.
Defensive (a.) Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
Defensive (a.) Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
Defensive (a.) In a state or posture of defense.
Defensive (n.) That which defends; a safeguard.
Defensively (adv.) On the defensive.
Defensor (n.) A defender.
Defensor (n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.
Defensor (n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
Defensory (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
Deferred (imp. & p. p.) of Defer
Deferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defer
Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Defer (v. i.) To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
Defer (v. t.) To render or offer.
Defer (v. t.) To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
Defer (v. i.) To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
Deference (n.) A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
Deferent (a.) Serving to carry; bearing.
Deferent (n.) That which carries or conveys.
Deferent (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Deferential (a.) Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
Deferentially (adv.) With deference.
Deferment (n.) The act of delaying; postponement.
Deferrer (n.) One who defers or puts off.
Defervescence (n.) Alt. of Defervescency
Defervescency (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.
Defervescency (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Defiance (n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
Defiance (n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Defiant (a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Defiatory (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance.
Defibrinate (v. t.) To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
Defibrination (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
Defibrinize (v. t.) To defibrinate.
Deficience (n.) Same as Deficiency.