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Depletive
- - Able or fitted to deplete. -- n. A substance used to deplete.
Deprecate
- verb - belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
- express strong disapproval of; deplore
Depredate
- - To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Deprehend
- - To take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.
Depressed
- verb - cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
- filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
- 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"
- lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
- press down; "Depress the spac
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"