Starting with D

To do anything in a slight or superficial manner

Country villa in Russia

Sign language system for the deaf

Skilful or ingenious

A god or deity

Of delicate beauty or charm; exquisite

Raised platform used as a stage

Casual romantic relationship or a brief or casual involvement with something

To waste time, loiter, delay

Hateful, abominable, outrageous

Removing all memory of a person from history

To make dandy or foppish

A man who is excessively concerned with appearance

Unpleasantly moist or humid

Male ballet dancer

Female ballet dancer

Neat, trim, smart

Spotted markings

Adventure, courage, boldness

Impetuous, spirited, lively

Mean, sneaking coward

Containing a date

A piece of information

Carelessly coat or smear a surface with a thick substance

To overcome with fear, intimidate

Not to be overcome with fear or daunted

To waste time, walk slowly

In fact, in reality

There is no disputing about tastes

According to rightful legal entitlement

From the beginning, anew

Required by etiquette or current fashion

Not wanted, unwelcome

Overwhelming disaster

Exclude or prohibit someone from doing something

To reduce in quality or value, adulerate OR to lower in rank or dignity

Destroy or debase the moral purity of something

To make weak or feeble

State of being weak or feeble

Suave and stylish

To issue or emerge from a narrow opening

To expose the falseness and hollowness of an idea or belief

Luxurious self-indulgence

Leave a place suddenly or secretly

Gradually pour wine into another vessel so as to avoid sediment OR temporarily transfer people to another place.

Cut off the head

Practice of deceiving someone

Apt or tending to deceive

Deliver words in an impassioned way

Having fallen in social status

Downward slope

In keeping with propriety, good manners etc

Propriety of speech, appearance, behaviour, dress etc

To disengage from

Reduction or diminution

Broken down or weakened by old age, infirm

Publicly denounce

Arrive at a fact by reasoning

Misappropriation of money

Act or process of rendering null and void

Literally to throw someone out of a window OR to remove or dismiss someone from an office or position of authority

Polite submission and respect

Desecrate, mar or spoil

The word to be defined

Words that define another thing

Done or reached decisively and conclusively

Deprive someone wrongfully of their rightful property

To pay money to reduce an expense

Demonstrating skill

No longer existing or functioning

Prevent from continuing to receive funds

Unconcerned or unconstrained

To treat someone with disrespect or contempt OR to lower the quality of

Taste something to fully appreciate its taste

Sampling of a variety of wines

To make to be a God

To do something that one consider's below ones dignity

God or goddess

A feeling of having previously experienced the present situation

Depressed in spirit

Inform against or denounce

Delicious or extremely attractive

Pleasure and delight

Hurtful, harmful, injurious

Careful consideration before a decision

Determine the limit or boundaries of

Describe or portray

Failing in one's duty

Frenzied or delirious behaviour

Temporary loss of mental faculties

Deliberately obscure or ambiguous

Make someone believe something that is not true

Great inundation of water

Research or make painstaking inquiries into

A leader who appeals to popular prejudices and desires rather than rational argument

Set the boundaries or limits of OR separate or distinguish from

Political step or initiative

Cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for someone OR do something that is beneath someone's dignity

Conduct, behaviour, bearing

Drive mad or insane

A negative mark against someone

A person who is greatly admired and respected

A group of people on the fringes of respectable society

A woman with doubtful or compromised reputation

A person's death

No longer in fashion

Of or relating to a demon

Capable of being demonstrated

Name given to residents in a place ie Chinese for residents of China

Cause someone to lose confidence or hope

Reduce to a lower grade or class

The kind of language used by ordinary people

Reduce to a lower grade or class

Substance that reduces inflammation or irritation

Raise objection or show reluctance

Reserved, shy, modest

To sully, defame

A person, animal or plant that is found in a particular place

Be a sign of, indicate

Final part of a play or story in which all the strands are bought together to explain the plot

Publicly declare a wrong

To make naked or strip clothes off

Openly declare a wrong or evil, to denounce

Portray in words, or draw a picture

Deserving strong condemnation, totally unacceptable

Feel or express strong condemnation for something

Bring into effective action

Strip of honour or wealth

A person's behaviour or manners

Remove from office suddenly and forcibly

Make someone immoral or wicked

Express disapproval of

Steal from, typically using force, plunder

Make someone insane

Express contempt for, ridicule

Detract from, disparage someone

Heroic action, daring deeds

Catch sight of

Feel a keen longing or desire for

Something that is desired or wanted

Stop doing something

That who is to be despised; contemptible

Violently rob or plunder

Become dejected and lose confidence

Autocrat ruling in a violent or oppressive way

Intend or choose for a particular purpose or end

State of disuse

Lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm

Easing of hostility or strained relations

Cleanse thoroughly

Diminish the worth or value of something

Waste or refuse of any kind

Second marriage after the death of the first husband or wife

Deviating from an accepted norm

Devilish action or conduct

Wicked or reckless mischief

Showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals

Plan or invent by careful thought

Not possessing, free from

Transfer or delegate to a lower level

Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands

Right-handed

Quality of being reckless or wild in a charismatic way

Characteristic of the devil

How something especially a language changes over time

Light, delicate and translucent

Dispersion of people beyond their original homeland

Forceful and bitter attack against someone

Division or contrast between things that are seen as being opposed or entirely different

Intended to teach

Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

Spread over a wide area or over a wide group of people

Two versions of the same language - one high usage, one low

To leave the main subject temporarily in a speech or writing

Decree imposed on a group without popular consent

make wider or larger

Person who pursues an area of interest such as the arts without real commitment or knowledge

Relating to floods

Having parts arranged in groups of two

Act or process of diminishing

Extremely or unusually small

Force of attack, impact

Wild, orgiastic

Alcoholism, especially with intermittent cravings of alcohol

Extremely bad, dreadful

Direct route straight up a mountain

Funeral song

To disagree

The state of being dissatisfied, especially with a government

Deny and responsibility and support for

Perceive by intellect, sight etc

Refuse to acknowledge, deny

Disconcert or confused

Makes someone feel uneasy or embarrassed

Cause someone trouble or inconvenience

Confused, abashed

Very unhappy and unable to be consoled

Dissatisfaction with one's circumstances

Disagreement between people

Disagreeing or incongruous

Written or spoken communication

Not courteous

Injure the reputation of

Wise or judicious in avoiding mistakes or faults, not given to careless talk

Individually separate and distinct

The quality of speaking or behaving in a way so as not to cause offence or reveal confidential information OR the quality of being discreet

Recognise a difference

Digressing from subject to subject

Person who takes part in a pre-arranged discussion

To look upon with contempt

Deprive of the ability or capacity to do something

Feeling of disappointment about someone that was previously respected.

Deprive someone of a right or privilege

State of being partly or scantily clad

Lack of harmony

To depress the spirits of

Unkempt and untidy

A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as it could be

Absence of inclination

Not candid or sincere

Lacking connection or consistency

Making someone lose their sense of direction

Regard or represent as being of little worth

Entirely different in kind, not able to be compared

Lack of similarity or equality

Free from or unaffected by passion

To deprive of spirit

Make someone feel annoyed or upset

To enjoy oneself unrestrained

Debate or argument

A feeling of worry or unease

Long or elaborate essay on a particular subject

Not reputable- having a bad reputation

Lack of satisfaction

Disguise one's true beliefs or feelings

Spread information widely

Violent disagreement; discord

Holding a contrary view

Written essay on something

A harmful action

Someone who disagrees (noun) or the act of disagreeing (adjective)

Not similar

Diversity or difference

Waste or fritter away

Sever association or connection

Overindulging in sensual pleasures

Lack of agreement or harmony among people

Persuade someone not to take a particular course of action

Lack of symmetry

Swell or bloat from pressure from inside

Extract the essential meaning

Having a distinguished manner or appearance

Distracted or absent minded

Very worried and upset

Be indecisive

The same thing again

Of or during the day

Stray or digress

Creating division or discord

To disclose or publish

Ready to accept instruction, submissive

Seeking to apply a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical consequences

A belief or set of beliefs held or taught by an organisation

Set of principles laid down by an organisation as being incontrovertibly true

Inclined to lay down principles as being undeniably true

Life of heedless pleasure and luxury

Expressing sorrow, mournful

Expressing great pain and sorrow

Stupid person

Sovereignty and control

A body double

The period of life during which a person is old and weak

Someone who is weak minded from old age

Brave and persistent

Sullen, gloomy, sour

Conciliatory, favouring peaceful solutions

Ill-dressed, not trim or smart

Most respected or senior person in a particular field

Dull, cheerless

Harsh, rigorous, severe

Radical and extreme

A right or due

Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

Hard or uninteresting work

Something that is enjoying great but probably short lived popularity

The state of being doubtful

Hesitating or doubting

Feeling of offence or high resentment

Sweet and soothing

Sweeten, calm or soothe

Dull or stupid person

Deceive or trick

Deceitfulness

Threats causing someone to do something against their better judgement

To waste away, reduce

Imaginary world where everything is as bad as it possibly can be