, dissimilarity; variety, multiformity.
diver's apparel. scaphander.
diver's disease. caisson disease.
divide, v. sunder, split, cleave, disunite, part, separate, sever,
dissociate, disconnect, detach, disintegrate, demarcate, dimidiate,
partition; apportion, distribute, allot, assign, parcel out; disaffect,
alienate, estrange, part; share, partake, participate.
divine, a. Godlike; religious, holy; heavenly, angelic, seraphic,
transcendent.
divine, v. foresee, foreknow, surmise, forebode, conjecture,
foretell.
diving bell. nautilus.
divisible, a. separable, dividable, partible.
division, n. separation, partition, demarcation, dimidiation;
section, segment, part, compartment, portion, canton, category, group;
disunion, alienation, schism, variance, dissension; apportionment,
allotment, distribution
dizziness, n. vertigo.
dizzy, a. vertiginous, giddy.
do, v. effect, accomplish, produce, achieve, consummate, execute,
perform; transact; perpetrate, commit; translate, render; suffice, answer;
fare, prosper; vouchsafe, grant; (Colloq.) cheat, overreach, swindle,
defraud. Antonyms: shirk, evade.
do-all, n. factotum.
do away with. abolish.
docile, a. tractable, teachable, gentle, yielding, obedient,
submissive. Antonyms: See indocile.
docility, n. tractableness, submissiveness. Antonym: indocility.
dock, v. curtail; deduct from, lessen.
dock, n. wharf, pier, jetty.
dock hand. stevedore.
doctor, n. physician, medical practitioner, leech; homeopath;
allopath; interne; externe; savant; (ignorant) quack, empiric.
doctor, v. repair, treat; (Slang) tamper with, falsify, adulterate.
doctrine, n. tenet, dogma, belief, principle, teaching.
doddering, a. shaking, trembling, infirm.
dodge, v. duck, evade, parry; prevaricate, equivocate, shift, evade,
quibble, parry.
dodge, n. (Colloq.) prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge,
stratagem, evasion, parry, device.
dodger, n. prevaricator; handbill, circular.
dog, n. canine; (young) pup, puppy, whelp; (female) bitch, slut;
cur, whippet, tike, fice, mongrel. Associated Words: canine, _Canis_,
cyniatrics, rabies, hydrophobia, cynanthropy, cynegetics, cynic,
cynophobia, cynoid, cynopodous, cynocephalous, cynocephalus, cynocephalic,
learn, leash, dog-fancier.
dog, v. follow, worry, hound.
dog days. canicular days.
dogged, a. stubborn, obstinate, mulish, headstrong, persistent.
doggish, a. surly, sullen, churlish, cynical, m
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