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  • English Word Deputation Definition The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
  • English Word Deputator Definition One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
  • English Word Depute Definition To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
  • English Word Depute Definition To appoint; to assign; to choose.
  • English Word Depute Definition A person deputed; a deputy.
  • English Word Deputed Definition of Depute
  • English Word Deputies Definition of Deputy
  • English Word Deputing Definition of Depute
  • English Word Deputize Definition To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
  • English Word Deputy Definition One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
  • English Word Deputy Definition A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
  • English Word Dequantitate Definition To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.
  • English Word Deracinate Definition To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
  • English Word Deracinated Definition of Deracinate
  • English Word Deracinating Definition of Deracinate
  • English Word Deraign Definition Alt. of Derain
  • English Word Deraignment Definition Alt. of Derainment
  • English Word Derail Definition To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
  • English Word Derailed Definition of Derail
  • English Word Derailing Definition of Derail
  • English Word Derailment Definition The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
  • English Word Derain Definition To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
  • English Word Deraination Definition The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.
  • English Word Derainment Definition The act of deraigning.
  • English Word Derainment Definition The renunciation of religious or monastic vows.
  • English Word Derange Definition To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
  • English Word Derange Definition To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.
  • English Word Derange Definition To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
  • English Word Deranged Definition of Derange
  • English Word Deranged Definition Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.