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deplete

(verb) use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

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deplore

(verb) express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"

(verb) regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"

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deposition

(noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office

(noun) the act of putting something somewhere

(noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office

(noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something

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deprave

(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

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deprecate

(verb) belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"

(verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore

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dereliction

(noun) willful negligence

(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"

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derision

(noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt

(noun) contemptuous laughter

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derivative

(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

(noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"

(noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security

(adjective satellite) resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

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derogatory

(adjective satellite) expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

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descry

(verb) catch sight of

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desiccant

(noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)

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desiccate

(verb) lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

(verb) remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"

(verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

(adjective satellite) 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

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desuetude

(noun) a state of inactivity or disuse

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desultory

(adjective satellite) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"

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detach

(verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"

(verb) come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

(verb) military use: separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"

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deter

(verb) turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

(verb) try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"

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deterrent

(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

(adjective satellite) tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"

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detraction

(noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken"

(noun) a petty disparagement

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deviance

(noun) deviate behavior

(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm

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dexterity

(noun) adroitness in using the hands

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dexterous

(adjective satellite) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"

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diaphanous

(adjective satellite) so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

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diatribe

(noun) thunderous verbal attack

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dictate

(noun) a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason"

(noun) an authoritative rule

(verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary"

(verb) issue commands or orders for

(verb) rule as a dictator

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diffidence

(noun) lack of self-confidence

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diffident

(adjective satellite) lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"

(adjective satellite) showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"

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dilate

(verb) become wider; "His pupils were dilated"

(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

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dilatory

(adjective satellite) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy"

(adjective satellite) wasting time

(adjective satellite) inclined to waste time and lag behind

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disabuse

(verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

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disallow

(verb) command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

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discern

(verb) detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

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discomfit

(verb) cause to lose one's composure

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discomfit

(verb) cause to lose one's composure

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disconcert

(verb) cause to lose one's composure

(verb) cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"

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discordant

(adjective) not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas"

(adjective satellite) lacking in harmony

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discountenance

(verb) show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"

(verb) look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

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discourse

(noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing

(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

(noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

(verb) talk or hold forth formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"

(verb) carry on a conversation

(verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"

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discredit

(noun) the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"

(verb) reject as false; refuse to accept

(verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"

(verb) damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits the politicians"

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disdain

(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

(verb) reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"

(verb) look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

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disencumber

(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

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dishevelled

(adjective satellite) in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers

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disingenuous

(adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

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disinter

(verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

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dislodge

(verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"

(verb) remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

(verb) change place or direction; "Shift one's position"

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dismal

(adjective satellite) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

(adjective satellite) depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

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disparate

(adjective satellite) including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"

(adjective satellite) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"

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disparity

(noun) inequality or difference in some respect

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dispassionate

(adjective satellite) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact"

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dissemble

(verb) make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

(verb) hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment"