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Dispels
- verb - force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
- to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
Distils
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Disuses
- noun - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
Ditches
- noun - a long narrow excavation in the earth
- any small natural waterway
- crash or crash-land; "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane"
- cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"
- forsake; "ditch a lover"
- make an emergency landing on water
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"
- throw away; "Chuck these old notes"
Dithers
- noun - act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
- make a fuss; be agitated
- Vacillate
Ditties
- noun - a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)
Dittoes
- verb - repeat an action or statement; "The next speaker dittoed her argument"
Diverts
- verb - occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- turn aside; turn away from
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
Divests
- verb - deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
- reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
- take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
Divides
- noun - a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- make a division or separation
- perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
- separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"