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Desiccation
- noun - dryness resulting from the removal of water
- the process of extracting moisture
Desiccative
- - Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.) An application for drying up secretions.
Designating
- verb - 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"
Designation
- noun - identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- the act of designating or identifying something
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
Designative
- adjective - serving to designate
Designatory
- - Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
Desperately
- adverb - in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"
- with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
Desperation
- noun - a state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"
- desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"