Word Meanings - DECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton. 2. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty

Additional info about word: DECK

1. To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton. 2. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency. Job xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. Dryden. 3. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECK)

• Adorn
• Beautify
• bedeck
• ornament
• decorate
• embellish
• deck
• garnish
• gild
• enrich
• Array Vest
• equip
• rank
• adorn
• dress
• accoutre
• invest
• attire
• place
• arrange
• draw up
• marshal
• set in order
• dispose
• Decorate
• Garnish
• Deck
• furnish
• furbish
• beautify
• Robe
• Invest
• clothe
• drape
• array

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECK)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip

Related words: (words related to DECK)

• EQUIPENSATE
  To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.