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Deploring
- verb - express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"
- Grieve over
- regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
Deterring
- verb - try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
- turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
Detouring
- verb - travel via a detour
Devouring
- verb - (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"
- destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
- eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
- eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
Dickering
- verb - negotiate the terms of an exchange; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar"
Diddering
- verb - move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands shook"
Differing
- verb - be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"
- be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
Dithering
- verb - act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- make a fuss; be agitated
- the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color
Doctoring
- verb - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
- give medical treatment to
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"