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Deplumation
- - The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Deportation
- noun - the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
- the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
Depravation
- noun - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Deprecation
- noun - a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
Depredation
- noun - (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease"
- an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
Deprivation
- noun - a state of extreme poverty
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
- the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
Dereliction
- noun - a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
- willful negligence
Dermapteran
- - See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.
Dermopteran
- - An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.
Description
- noun - a statement that represents something in words
- sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
- the act of describing something