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Deplumate
- verb - strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
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.
Desecrate
- verb - remove the consecration from a person or an object
- violate the sacred character of a place or language;
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"
Desperado
- noun - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
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