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Dermatine
- - Of or pertaining to the skin.
Dermatome
- noun - a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
Desecrate
- verb - remove the consecration from a person or an object
- violate the sacred character of a place or language;
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"
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"
Desirable
- adjective - Attractive
- Pleasing
- worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"
- worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"
Desistive
- - Final; conclusive; ending.
Desparple
- - To scatter; to disparkle.
Desperate
- adjective - (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces mar