on, abasement, deterioration, vitiation,
depravation.

debatable, a. contestable, moot, disputable, mooted, controvertible.
Antonyms: incontestable, indisputable, incontrovertible.

debate, v. argue, discuss, moot, contend, controvert.

debate, n. discussion, argument, moot, dispute, controversy,
disputation, forensic.

debauch, v. vitiate, deprave, corrupt, demoralize; ravish, rape.

debauch, n. debauchery, dissipation, abandon, drunkenness saturnalia,
orgies, bacchanals, lechery; rape. Antonyms: temperance, continence,
moderation.

debauched, a. dissolute, licentious, dissipated, corrupt.

debauchee, n. libertine, lecher, fornicator, rake, drunkard, satyr.

debauchery, n. lechery, libertinism, sensuality, licentiousness,
bestiality.

debonair, a. suave, courteous, urbane, complaisant, gracious.

debt, n. liability, due, obligation, debit. Antonyms: asset,
resource. Associated Words: garnishee, distrain, distress, debenture.

decadent, a. deteriorating, degenerating.--n. degenerate.

decay, v. decline, retrograde, deteriorate; rot, decompose, putrefy,
moulder.

decay, n. deterioration, corruption, decline, decadence, senescence,
retrogradation, decomposition, caducity; putrefaction, putrescence, rot;
eremacausis.

decayed, a. rotten, corrupt, putrefied, carious, putrescent,
decomposed.

decaying, a. rotting, corrupt, mouldering, decadent, putrefying,
carious. Antonym: imputrescible.

decease, n. demise, death.

deceased person. decedent.

deceit, n. deception, imposition, trickery, chicanery, artifice,
delusion, circumvention, guile, duplicity, imposture finesse,
dissimulation, cozenage, trumpery, fallacy.

deceitful, a. deceptive, illusive, insidious, fraudulent, wily,
artful, disingenuous.

deceivable, a. deceptible, gullible, credulous. Antonyms:
indeceptible, undeceivable.

deceive, v. delude, beguile, mislead, gull, impose upon, dupe,
circumvent, hoodwink, bamboozle. Antonyms: undeceive, disillusionize,
disabuse.

deceiver, n. impostor, charlatan, mountebank, swindler, knave,
cogger.

decency, n. propriety, seemliness, decorum, modesty, Antonyms: See
indecency.

decent, a. suitable, modest, decorous, seemly, respectable.
Antonyms: See indecent.

deception, n. imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy,
ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse,
dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggery. Antonyms: guilelessness,
candor, disillusionment, fair dealing,