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Cercopod
- - One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.
Dead End
- noun - a passage with access only at one end
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
Dead-End
- adjective - lacking opportunities for development or advancement; "stuck in a dead-end job"
Deadened
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
Deadhead
- noun - a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way; "the deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as possible"
- a train or bus or taxi traveling empty
- to prune dead flowers from a plant
Deadwood
- noun - a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
Deaf-Aid
- noun - an electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing
Deafened
- verb - be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"
- caused to hear poorly or not at all
- make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
- make soundproof; "deafen a room"
Deathbed
- noun - the bed on which a person dies
- the last few hours before death
Debarked
- verb - go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"