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, 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.


