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diffident, a. bashful, timid, shy.
diffuse, a. copious, full, verbose, prolix.
dig, v. delve, excavate, scoop; thrust, poke, punch, jab; exhume (dig up).
dig, n. thrust, punch, poke; grind (student).
digest, v. codify, systematize, methodize, cla.s.sify.
digest, n. pandect, summary, code, system, abridgment.
digestion, n. eupepsia. Antonyms: indigestion, dyspepsia.
a.s.sociated Words: peptics, pepsin, peptic, pepticity, chyme, chyle, digestible, digestibility, indigestible, indigestibility.
digging, n. excavation; exhumation (digging up). a.s.sociated words: fossorial, fodient.
diggings, n. pl. (Slang) region, locality.
dignified, a. stately, majestic, august, imposing, decorous.
Antonyms: See undignified.
dignify, v. exalt, grace, enn.o.ble, honor, elevate.
dignity, n. exaltation, eminence; stateliness; honor, preferment.
digress, v. deviate, depart, wander, turn aside.
digression, n. deviation, divergence; episode, incident.
dike, n. levee, embankment.
dike warden. dikereeve.
dilapidated, a. ramshackle, dismantled.
dilate, v. expand, distend; expatiate.
dilation, n. expansion, dilatation, distention; expatiation.
dilemma, n. predicament, quandary, difficulty, strait, pickle.
Antonyms: extrication, release.
diligence, n. a.s.siduity, sedulousness, sedulity, perseverance, stagecoach (France).
diligent, a. sedulous, industrious, a.s.siduous, persevering.
Antonyms: See lazy.
dillydally, v. dawdle, dally, fritter, trifle, loiter.
dillydallying, n. dawdling, loitering, trifling, dalliance.
dilute, v. attenuate, thin, weaken, reduce.
diluter, n. diluent, attenuant.
dilution, n. attenuation, thinning, reduction.
dim, a. obscure, indistinct, faint, sullied, blurred. Antonyms: bright, vivid, intense, clear.
dim, v. bedim, obscure, darken, dull, eclipse, blur, tarnish.
diminish, v. decrease, reduce, abate, lessen, contract, curtail.
diminution, n. reduction, decrease, abatement, decrement.
dim-sighted, a. purblind, moonblind.
din, n. clamor, noise, racket, uproar, hubbub, clangor, hullabaloo.
dinner, n. a.s.sociated Words: prandial, post-prandial, croupier, ante-prandial, dine, diner.
dinner pail. blickey (Local U.S.).
dint, n. indentation, dent; force, power.
dip, v. plunge, immerse, duck, souse, douse, dive; lade.
direct, a. straight, undeviating; diametrical. Antonyms: indirect, circuitous, roundabout.
direct, v. point, aim; guide, pilot, lead, steer, regulate, govern, control, manage, conduct, superintend, instruct; address, superscribe.
direction, n. guidance, government, administration, management, superintendence, oversight; instruction, order, command; address, superscription.
directly, adv. diametrically; immediately.
dirge, n. requiem, coronach, trental, threnody.
dirt, n. earth, soil; squalor, filth, muck, foulness.
dirt-eater, n. geophagist.
dirt-eating, n. geophagism, chthonophagia, pica.
dirty, a. defiled, unclean, foul, nasty, filthy, soiled, begrimed, grimy, squalid, uncleanly, loathsome, bedraggled, daggletailed, besmeared, sullied; sordid, groveling, despicable, vile, contemptible, abject.
dirty, V. soil, befoul, begrime, besmirch, sully, tarnish, besmear, defile.
disable, v. incapacitate, disqualify, cripple, maim.
