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Deserving
- verb - be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
- worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically)
Desorbing
- verb - go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
- remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed; "the substance was desorbed"
Deterging
- verb - wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body; "This drug is powerful enough to deterge"
Determine
- verb -
- decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"
- fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property"
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
- settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
- shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
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"
Detersion
- - The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
Detersive
- adjective - having cleansing power
Detortion
- - The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
Dichroism
- noun - pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions