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Deserting
- verb - desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
- leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
- leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Desertion
- noun - the act of giving something up
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
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)
Desexxing
- verb - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
Desiccant
- noun - a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
Desiccate
- adjective - lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
- preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"
- remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"
Designata
- noun - something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression
Designate
- adjective - appointed but not yet installed in office
- assign a name or title to
- decree or designate beforehand;
- design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents"