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Denudating
- verb - lay bare; "denude a forest"
Depilating
- verb - remove body hair; "epilate her legs"
Depositing
- verb - put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month"
- put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"
Depressing
- verb - cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
- causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
- lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
- lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- press down; "Depress the space key"
Deputising
- verb - act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"
- appoint as a substitute
Deputizing
- verb - act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"
- appoint as a substitute
Derogating
- verb - cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence"
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"
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"