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Dalmane
- noun - tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia
Daycare
- noun - childcare during the day while parents work
Daymare
- - A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
De Sade
- noun - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
- French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism'' (1740-1814)
Decease
- noun - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
Deciare
- - A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.
Declare
- verb - announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"
- authorize payments of; "declare dividends"
- declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?"
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast"
- state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"
- state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
Deflate
- verb - become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
- collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
- produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy"
- reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress"
Deglaze
- verb - dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring
Degrade
- verb - lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
- reduce the level of land, as by erosion