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Delundung
- - An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.
Demanding
- verb - ask to be informed of; "I demand an explanation"
- claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
- lay legal claim to
- request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"
- summon to court
Demeaning
- verb - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
Demisting
- verb - free from mist; "demist the car windows"
Demobbing
- verb - retire from military service
Demurring
- verb - enter a demurrer
- take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
Departing
- verb - be at variance with; be out of line with
- go away or leave
- leave; "The family took off for Florida"
- move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
- wander from a direct or straight course
Depending
- verb - be contingent upon (something that is elided); "That depends"
- have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
- Rely on
Depicting
- verb - a representation by picture or portraiture
- give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
- show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
Deplaning
- verb - get off an airplane