roaring,
rushing, headlong.

dastard, n. coward, craven, poltroon. See coward.

daub, v. smear, bedaub, besmear, soil, sully.

daughter, n. Associated Words: filial, filiation, filicide.

daunt, v. cow, intimidate, frighten, alarm, appall, dishearten,
scare.

dauntless, a. intrepid, valorous, daring, fearless.

dawn, n. daybreak, aurora, dayspring, sunrise.

day, n. daytime, nycthemeron; time, age, generation, epoch, era.
Associated Words: metemptosis, proemptosis, daily, diurnal, quotidian,
ephemeral, _sine die_, ferial, _per diem_.

day-blindness, n. nyctalopia.

day-dream, n. revery.

day scholar. extern.

day-sight, n. hemeralopia.

dazzle, v. daze, blind; bewilder, astonish, overpower.

dazzling, a. brilliant, intense, glaring.

deacon, n. Associated Words: diaconal, diaconate.

dead, a. lifeless, deceased, inanimate, defunct, extinct, departed;
inert, obtuse, impassive, callous, torpid, unfeeling, subdued.

dead body. See corpse.

deadborn a. stillborn.

deaden, v. blunt, benumb, hebetate, moderate; devitalize, subdue.

dead-house, n. morgue; ossuarium, charnel-house, mortuary, tomb.

deadly, a. fatal, mortal, lethal, lethiferous, noxious, internecine;
implacable, unrelenting.

deaf-mute, n. Associated Word: dactylology.

deal, v. distribute, apportion, dispense, allot; trade, traffic,
negotiate.

dealer, n. trader, dispenser, trafficker, retailer, shopkeeper,
merchant, monger, vender, tradesman, broker, mercer, commission dealer,
jobber.

dealing, n. distribution, apportionment; traffic, intercourse,
barter, business, transaction, negotiation, commerce, trade.

dear, a. costly, expensive, high-priced; beloved, darling, precious.
Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive.

dearth, n. scarcity, lack, deficiency, paucity, want. Antonyms: See
plenty.

death, n. decease, demise, dissolution, dying, mortality, expiration,
quietus, mort, obit, extinction; euthanasia (an easy death).
Associated-words: eschatology, thanatology, thanatopsis, necrology,
thanatophobia, necrophobia, necrolatry, requiem, necromancy, posthumous,
post-mortem, ante-mortem, euthanasian, dirge, crossbones, placebo, _in
extremis_, decedent, funeral, obit, obitual, necrologist, fatality, fatal,
casualty.

deathless, a. immortal, imperishable, undying.

death notice. obituary, necrology.

debar, v. preclude, exclude.

debase, v. degrade, deteriorate, abase, vitiate, corrupt, alloy,
humiliate.

debasement, n. degradati