| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| divast | adjective | Devastated; laid waste. |
| diving | present participle & vb. noun | of Dive, That dives or is used or diving. |
| diverb | noun | A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. |
| divers | adjective | Different in kind or species; diverse., Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. |
| divert | verb t. | To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course., To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor., To turn aside; to digress. |
| divest | verb t. | To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; — opposed to invest., Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one’s self of prejudices, passions, etc., See Devest. |
| divide | verb t. | To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts., To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns., To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share., To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance., To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question., To subject to arithmetical division., To separate into species; — said of a genus or generic term., To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant., To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations., To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder., To cause separation; to disunite., To break friendship; to fall out., To have a share; to partake., To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes., A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed. |
| divine | adjective | Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will., Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments., Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship., Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods., Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies., Presageful; foreboding; prescient., Relating to divinity or theology., One skilled in divinity; a theologian., A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman., To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture., To foretell; to predict; to presage., To render divine; to deify., To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications., To have or feel a presage or foreboding., To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. |