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Desparple
- - To scatter; to disparkle.
Desperate
- adjective - (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces mar
Despumate
- - To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
Dessicate
- - variant spelling of desiccate.
Destitute
- adjective - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
- impoverished
- poor enough to need help from others
Desuetude
- noun - a state of inactivity or disuse
Detective
- noun - a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
Determine
- verb -
- decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"
- fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property"
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
- settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
- shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"