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Deprave
- verb - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
Deprive
- verb - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
- take away
- take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
Deserve
- verb - be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
Devolve
- verb - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- pass on or delegate to another; "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
Dvandva
- unknown - A word comprising two words conjoined but without the intervening "and" such as Schleswig-Holstein.
Eightvo
- noun - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
Elative
- - Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.
Elusive
- adjective - difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
- difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
Embrave
- - To inspire with bravery.