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dehydrate: preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" dehydrate: remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" exsiccate: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" arid: 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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| desiccation |
dehydration: dryness resulting from the removal of water dehydration: the process of extracting moisture
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| designer drug |
a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs
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| desoxyribonucleic acid |
deoxyribonucleic acid: (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules"
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| despair |
a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute" the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!"
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