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Descanting
- verb - sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- sing in descant
- talk at great length about something of one's interest
Descending
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- coming down or downward
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descension
- - The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Descensive
- - Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
Describing
- verb - give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
- to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
Desolating
- verb - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
- reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Desolation
- noun - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
- an event that results in total destruction
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
Desorption
- noun - changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state
Despairing
- verb - abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!"
- 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"