see *data.

v. Discourage, intimidate. daunting adj. [latin domito from domo tame]

n. Small crane on board ship, esp. For moving or holding a lifeboat. [french diminutive of david]

past and past part. Of *deal1.

certificate n. Official statement of a person's death.

- duty n. Hist. Property tax levied after death.

- n. - irreversible ending of life; dying or being killed.

- instance of this.

- destruction; ending (death of our hopes).

- being dead (eyes closed in death).

- (usu. Death) personification of death, esp. As a skeleton.

- lack of spiritual life. at death's door close to death. Be the death of 1 cause the death of.

- be annoying or harmful to. Catch one's death colloq. Catch a serious chill etc. Do to death 1 kill.

- overdo. Fate worse than death colloq. Very unpleasant experience. Put to death kill or cause to be killed. To death to the utmost, extremely (bored to death). deathlike adj. [old english]

- penalty n. Punishment by death.

- rate n. Number of deaths per thousand of population per year.

- row n. Us part of a prison for those sentenced to death.

- squad n. Armed paramilitary group.

v. (-gg-) slang remove the trousers of (a person), esp. As a joke.

v. (-rr-) (foll. By from) exclude; prohibit (debarred from the club). debarment n. [french: related to *bar1]

—n. - entry in an account recording a sum owed.

- sum recorded.

- total of such sums.

- debit side of an account. —v. (-t-) 1 (foll. By against, to) enter on the debit side of an account (debit £50 to my account).

- (foll. By with) charge (a person) with a debt (debited me with £500). [latin debitum *debt]

v. (-gg-) colloq. - remove concealed microphones from (a room etc.).

- remove defects from (a computer program etc.).

- = *delouse.

n. (brit. Debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]

- n. (us debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]