Dear-loved () Greatly beloved.

Dearly () In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

Dearly () At a high rate or price; grievously.

Dearly () Exquisitely.

Dearn () Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.

Dearn () Same as Darn.

Dearness () The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

Dearness () Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.

Dearth () Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

Dearticulate () To disjoint.

Dearworth () Precious.

Deary () A dear; a darling.

Deas () See Dais.

Death () The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Death () Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Death () Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Death () Cause of loss of life.

Death () Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death () Danger of death.

Death () Murder; murderous character.

Death () Loss of spiritual life.

Death () Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathbed () The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

Deathbird () Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

Deathblow () A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

Deathful () Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

Deathful () Liable to undergo death; mortal.

Deathfulness () Appearance of death.

Deathless () Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Deathlike () Resembling death.

Deathlike () Deadly.

Deathliness () The quality of being deathly; deadliness.

Deathly () Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

Deathly () Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

Death's-head () A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

Death's-herb () The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

Deathsman () An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

Deathward () Toward death.

Deathwatch () A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

Deathwatch () A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

Deathwatch () The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Deaurate () Gilded.

Deaurate () To gild.

Deauration () Act of gilding.

Deave () To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

Debacchate () To rave as a bacchanal.

Debacchation () Wild raving or debauchery.

Debacle () A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.

Debarred () of Debar

Debarring () of Debar

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