dealer, n. [trader], dispenser, trafficker, retailer, shopkeeper, [merchant], monger, vender, [tradesman], [broker], mercer, commission [dealer], jobber.

dealing, n. [distribution], [apportionment]; traffic, intercourse, [barter], [business], [transaction], negotiation, [commerce], [trade].

dear, a. [costly], [expensive], high-priced; beloved, darling, [precious]. Antonyms: [cheap], inexpensive.

dearth, n. [scarcity], [lack], [deficiency], paucity, [want]. Antonyms: See [plenty].

death, n. [decease], demise, [dissolution], [dying], mortality, expiration, quietus, mort, obit, extinction; euthanasia (an easy death). Associated-words: eschatology, thanatology, thanatopsis, necrology, thanatophobia, necrophobia, necrolatry, requiem, [necromancy], posthumous, [post-mortem], ante-mortem, euthanasian, [dirge], crossbones, placebo, in extremis, decedent, [funeral], obit, obitual, necrologist, [fatality], [fatal], [casualty].

deathless, a. immortal, [imperishable], [undying].

death notice. obituary, necrology.

debar, v. preclude, [exclude].

debase, v. [degrade], [deteriorate], [abase], [vitiate], [corrupt], [alloy], [humiliate].

debasement, n. [degradation], [abasement], [deterioration], [vitiation], depravation.