Chapter Destroy to Diatribe of D by Soule's Synonymes

Detail, v. a.

1. Relate, recount, narrate, rehearse, delineate, portray, depict, enumerate, particularize, describe, set forth.

2. Detach, send away, appoint to a special service.

Detail, n.

1. Account, narration, narrative, relation, recital.

2. Detachment, sending off, appointment to special service.

3. Individual part, item, particular, particularity.

Details, n. pl. Particulars, minutiæ, distinct parts, minor circumstances.

Detain, v. a.

1. Restrain, stay, check, delay, retain, stop, keep back.

2. Confine, hold or keep in custody.

Detect, v. a. Discover, expose, descry, ascertain, find, find out, bring to light, lay open.

Detection, n. Discovery, finding out, exposure.

Detent, n. Pawl, click, catch, ratchet.

Deter, v. a. Restrain, hinder, discourage, prevent, hold back, withhold (by fear).

Detergent, a. Cleansing, detersive.

Deteriorate, v. a. Impair, degrade, debase, vitiate, make worse.

Deteriorate, v. n. Degenerate, decline, become impaired, grow worse.

Deterioration, n.

1. Debasement, degradation, depravation, vitiation, perversion.

2. Degeneration, degeneracy, caducity, decline, impairment.

Determinable, a. Definable, fixable, capable of decision, that may be determined.

Determinate, a.

1. Determined, definite, fixed, limited, settled, established, explicit, positive, express, absolute, certain.