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3. depress, dispirit, let down, lower the spirits, discourage, dishearten; puncture, plunge into despair, puncture or prick one's balloon, take the wind out of one's sails, rain on one's parade; dash, knock down, sink, SI.bring down; humble, mortify, humiliate, bring down from one's high horse,
deflect, v. 1. turn aside, diverge, shy, incline; avert, shunt, sidetrack, turn away, divagate, divaricate; bend, swerve, curve, crook, twist, flex, buckle; refract, divert, switch, glance off.
2. (usu. in a nautical sense) shift, jibe, jib, gybe, gibe, alter course, change direction; yaw, deviate, sheer, veer, tack, go about, wear; slew, slue, wheel round, swing, sweep; cant, heel, warp, tilt, bear down, edge, bear off, sidle,
deflection, n. 1. deviation, declination, divagation, divarication, Aeron. drift; divergence, diversion, swerve, bend, curve, crook, twist; refraction, flection, deflexure, refringence. .
2. (usu. in a nautical sense) jibe, gybe, yaw, shift, sheer; slew, slue, round, swing, sweep; veer, tack, wear, cant, tilt, heel, warp,
deflower, v. 1. violate, rape, ravish, molest, take, steal [s.o.'s] maidenhead, deprive of virginity, Obs. devirginate, Obs. constuprate, Obs. stuprate; force, attack, assault, abuse; Euph. take advantage of, Euph. have one's way with, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat; debauch, seduce, corrupt, pervert, dishonor.
2. despoil, spoil, mar, harm; desecrate, defile, outrage.
deform, v. 1. disfigure, mar, uglify, deface, distort, contort, malform, misshape; twist, bend, gnarl, warp, mutilate; cripple, mangle, maim, damage, hurt.
2. metamorphose, transform, transmogrify, change the form of.
deformed, adj. 1. misshapen, malformed, distorted, ill-proportioned, misproportioned; irregular, unnatural, grotesque; contorted, curved, awry, askew, crooked, gnarled; crippled, lame, humpbacked, hunchbacked, Pathol, kyphotic, bowlegged, bandylegged, knock-kneed, clubfooted, splayfooted, taliped, snub-nosed; stumpy, stunted, dwarfed.
2. hateful, vile, depraved, loathsome, gross; offensive, repulsive, revolting; hideous, monstrous, ugly, unsightly; warped, twisted, perverted,
deformity, n. 1. deformation, disfigurement, malformation, misshapenness, defacement, distortion, disfiguration; contortion, crookedness, twisting, Pathol, kyphosis, warp; ugliness, unsightliness, eyesore, blemish, imperfection; monstrosity, abortion.
2. hatefulness, depravity, vileness, grossness; loathsomeness, repulsiveness, offensiveness,
defraud, v. cheat, rook, victimize, chouse, skin, fleece, bilk, swindle; steal a march on, cog, SI.take, SI. snooker; fool, cozen, dupe, delude, take in, throw dust in the eyes of, pull the wool over the eyes of, Inf. slip or pass [s.t.] over on; hoodwink, trick, bamboozle, outwit, overreach; humbug, gammon, bluff, juggle, Inf. flimflam; pass off, palm off, impose upon, pull a fast one on, Inf. throw a curve, take for a ride, Inf. rope [s.o.] in; mislead, misguide, misinform, Inf. fast-talk, Inf. flam, Inf. hype, Inf. jive, SI.con, SI.sucker in.
defray, v. pay for, bear the expense or cost, stand the cost, Inf. foot the bill, Inf. pick up the check or tab; pay off, Inf. pay up, settle, square, discharge, liquidate, clear, Finance, amortize,
defrayal, n. payment, defrayment, discharge, settlement, clearance, liquidation, Finance, amortization,
deft, adj. 1. dexterous, ambidextrous, adroit, handy, neat, Brit. Dial, feat; nimble, light, agile, active, quick, rapid, brisk, swift, lively; skillful, skilled, adept, proficient, facile, ready, experienced, Fr. au fait.
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