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Depresses
- verb - cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
- 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"
Depressor
- noun - a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
Dermestes
- - A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvDermestes lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.
Descended
- 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"
- 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"
Descender
- noun - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
- a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
- someone who descends
Descensus
- noun - the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)
Desperado
- noun - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
Desperate
- adjective - (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- 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"
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces mar
Destemper
- - A kind of painting. See Distemper.