Word Meanings - DERELICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other

Additional info about word: DERELICTION

A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke. 2. A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment. A total dereliction of military duties. Sir W. Scott. 3. The state of being left or abandoned.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DERELICTION)

• Defection
• Failure
• dereliction
• abandonment
• relinquishment
• desertion
• Indiscretion
• Misconduct
• misbehavior
• misdoing
• misdeed
• delinquency
• lapse
• trip
• slip
• flaw
• blot
• omission
• trespass
• peccadillo

Related words: (words related to DERELICTION)

• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• LAPSE
  1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe. 2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. For which, if be
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• MISDEAL
  The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
• MISDOING
  A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
• TRESPASS
  1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law;
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• MISDEMPT
  of Misdeem. Spenser.
• LAPSED
  1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• RELINQUISHMENT
  The act of relinquishing.
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• OMISSION
  1. The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison. 2. That which is omitted or is left undone.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• ELAPSE
  To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• PRETERLAPSED
  Past; as, preterlapsed ages. Glanvill.