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Devaluation
- noun - an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
- the reduction of something's value or worth
Devastating
- verb - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
- overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
- physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
- wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
Devastation
- noun - an event that results in total destruction
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devastation"
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
Devenustate
- - To deprive of beauty or grace.
Dexterities
- noun - adroitness in using the hands
- Agile
Diacoustics
- - That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.
Diagnostics
- noun - the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease
Dialyzation
- - The act or process of dialysis.
Diapositive
- unknown - noun. a positive photographic slide or transparency
Dictyoptera
- noun - in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera