SI. pig in, SI. stuff one's face, SI. tuck in.
2. consume, dispatch, finish, finish off, dispose of, get rid of, SI. polish off, SI. do in, SI. kill; destroy, ruin, ravage, wreck havoc upon; devastate, lay to waste, waste; demolish, wipe out, wreck, SI. total; wipe off the map, erase, obliterate, eradicate.
3. engulf, swallow up, envelop, swamp; overcome, overwhelm, conquer, subjugate; triumph over, whip, drub, rout; overturn, vanquish, overpower; thrash, trim, break.
4. take in, drink in, absorb; ogle, fix on, stare, gape, Inf. gawk, Inf. give [s.o.] the once over, SI. eyeball, SI. slobber over, Si. drool over.
devout, adj. 1. pious, reverent, religious, worship ful, prayerful, church-going, faithful; heaven-minded, holy, godly, saintly, seraphic; angelic, pure in heart; pietistic, righteous, solemn, serious.
2. sincere, earnest, heartfelt; fervent, fervid, ardent, intense, vehement.
dexterity, n. 1. adroitness, deftness, sleight, sleight of hand, legerdemain; nimbleness, agility, quickness; handiness, right-handedness, neatness, skillfulness, skill, faculty, knack, talent; finesse, felicity, ambidexterity, facility, readiness; artistry, craft, proficiency, adeptness, address, mastery, authority, expertness.
2. cleverness, shrewdness, Inf. cuteness, artifice, cunning, cunningness, guile, canniness, subtleness, artfulness, craftiness; ingenuity, ingeniousness, inventiveness, resourcefulness; astuteness, keenness, acuteness, sharpness, sharp-wittedness; sagaciousness, sagacity, aptness, smartness, wittiness.
dexterous, adj. 1. adroit, deft, ambidextrous, handy, neat, Brit. Dial, feat; nimble, agile, quick; facile, ready, skilled, skillful; proficient, adept, experienced, Fr. au fait.
2. clever, shrewd, Archaic, parlous, Inf cute; ingenious, inventive, resourceful; cunning, canny, guileful, subtle, artful, crafty, slick; astute, keen, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, sharp as a tack, quick-witted; sagacious, apt, smart, witty.
3. masterful, masterly, expert, artistic; excellent, polished, finished, well executed; workmanlike, work-manly, practiced, accomplished.
diabolic, adj. 1. damnable, accursed, execrable; abominable, horrible, horrid, hideous, monstrous, atrocious; base, vile, odious, obnoxious, villainous, sinister; wicked, iniquitous, sinful, evil, impious, Obs. scelerous, black-hearted, corrupt, depraved, Archaic. facinorous; reprobate, nefarious, flagitious, heinous; profligate, immoral, dissolute, vitiated, perverted, perverse; pestilential, malevolent, malicious, malign, maleficent, malefic.
2. devilish, diabolical, fiendish, ghoulish; satanic, Mephistophelian, demonic, demoniac, demoniacal, cacodemonic; infernal, hellish.
diadem, n. 1. crown, coronet, tiara, mitre.
2. wreath, garland, laurel, bays; circlet, headband, fillet, chaplet.
diagram, n. 1. drawing, line drawing, sketch, draft; picture, view, illustration, representation; outline, delineation, skeleton, figure, profile.
2. chart, graph, plot, table, scheme, schema, blueprint.
dial, n. 1. sundial, horologe, clock, timepiece.
-v. 2. telephone, Inf phone, call, call up, Brit.
ring up, Inf. buzz, Inf. give [s.o.j a ring or buzz.
dialect, n. 1. tongue, speech, speech pattern, idiom, regionalism, localism, provincialism, accent; vernacular, colloquialism, patois, pidgin, pigeon, lingua franca.
2. jargon, cant, argot, parlance, lingo, slang.