| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| cryolite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine | Synonyms: Greenland spar |
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| cryptophyte | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptomonad |
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| crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cuprite | (noun) a mineral consisting of cuprous oxide that is a source of copper | - |
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| cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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| curate | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
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| curette | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curet |
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| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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| damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| (verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
| (verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
| (verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
| (verb) go on a date with | - |
| (verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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| debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
| (verb) argue with one another | - |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
| decollate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decapitate |
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| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| (verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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| (verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
| deflate | (verb) become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air | - |
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| (verb) reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices | - |
| (verb) produce deflation in | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: puncture |
| (verb) release contained air or gas from | - |
| (verb) collapse by releasing contained air or gas | - |
| defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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| (verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
| dehydrate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: desiccate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| (verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demote | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, kick downstairs, relegate |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| dendrite | (noun) short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron | - |
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| denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| denote | (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: refer |
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| (verb) be a sign or indication of | - |
| (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: announce |
| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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| deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depute | (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: delegate |
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| (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, designate |
| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| derate | (verb) lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus | - |
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| deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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| derogate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, minimize |
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| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
| desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, dry up, exsiccate |
| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
| despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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