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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: s.h.i.+rk, 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 pract.i.tioner, 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, s.h.i.+ft, 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) b.i.t.c.h, s.l.u.t; cur, whippet, tike, fice, mongrel. a.s.sociated 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, morose.
dog house. kennel.
dogma, n. doctrine, tenet.
dogmatic, a. positive, magisterial, dictatorial, imperious, domineering, overbearing; authoritative, categorical.
dog-star, n. Sinus, Canicula, Cards Majoris.
doings, n. pl. actions, proceedings, deeds, acts, performances, transactions.
dole, n. pittance, alms; distribution, apportionment, share, portion; grief, sorrow.
doleful, a. sorrowful, dolorous, plaintive, piteous, lugubrious, woe-begone.
domain, n. dominion, sovereignty; realm, territory; province, department.
dome, n. cupola.
domestic, a. home, household, family; intestine; domesticated, tame; fond of home.
dominant, a. predominant, prevailing, predominating, paramount.
dominate, v. predominate, sway, rule, govern, control, surmount, overtop.
domination, n. government, dominion, supremacy, rule, authority, ascendancy.
domineer, v. tyrannize, lord it; swagger, vapor, bl.u.s.ter.
domineering, a. tyrannical, dictatorial, overbearing, lordly, imperious. Antonyms: meek, apologetic, retiring.
dominion, n. sovereignty, sway, supremacy; realm, empire, kingdom, domain.
do more than duty requires. supererogate.
donation, n. gift, present, benefaction.
done for. (Colloq.) tired out, used up, spent, collapsed, exhausted.
done up. (Colloq.) wrapped up; worn out, exhausted.
donkey, n. a.s.s, burro, Neddy. a.s.sociated Words: bray, asinine, asininity.
do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful.
doodlesack, n. bagpipe.
doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death.
door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. a.s.sociated words: lintel, jamb, sill, threshold, stile, panel, rail, mullion, porte-cochere, reveal, rabbet, casing.
doorkeeper, n. porter, _concierge_, ostiary; tyler.
doorsill, n. threshold.
dormancy, n. abeyance, quiescence, inactivity, torpor, lethargy, inertness.
