All English words - page 1078

Meanings of Dependance:

noun

A state of needing something or someone, esp. in order to continue existing or operating

Usage examples:

The company is reducing its dependence on foreign markets.

Meanings of Dependant:

noun

A person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.

Usage examples:

A single man with no dependants

Meanings of Dependence:

noun

The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else.

Usage examples:

Japan's dependence on imported oil

Meanings of Dependencies:

noun

A country or province controlled by another.

Usage examples:

The islands became dependencies of norway and denmark

Meanings of Dependency:

noun

A country or province controlled by another.

Usage examples:

The islands became dependencies of norway and denmark

Meanings of Dependents:

noun

A person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.

Usage examples:

A single man with no dependants

Meanings of Depending:

verb

Be controlled or determined by.

Usage examples:

Differences in earnings depended on a wide variety of factors

Meanings of Depersonalised:

verb

Divest of human characteristics or individuality.

Usage examples:

Medical technology depersonalizes treatment

Meanings of Depersonalising:

verb

Divest of human characteristics or individuality.

Usage examples:

Medical technology depersonalizes treatment

Meanings of Depersonalization:

noun

The action of divesting someone or something of human characteristics or individuality.

Usage examples:

We oppose the depersonalization that reduces human beings to the status of things.

Meanings of Depersonalizes:

verb

Divest of human characteristics or individuality.

Usage examples:

Medical technology depersonalizes treatment

Meanings of Dephlogisticated:

adjective

Deprived of ‘phlogiston’. oxygen was originally called dephlogisticated air by joseph priestley.

Usage examples:

Burn a log in the fireplace, air carries off the phlogiston, and the dephlogisticated log reveals i…

Meanings of Depicting:

verb

Represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form.

Usage examples:

Paintings depicting old testament scenes

Meanings of Depiction:

noun

The action of depicting something, especially in a work of art.

Usage examples:

The painting's horrific depiction of war

Meanings of Depigment:

verb

Reduce or remove the pigmentation of (the skin).

Usage examples:

This drug can permanently depigment the skin

Meanings of Depilate:

verb

Remove the hair from.

Usage examples:

I depilated my underarms and legs

Meanings of Depilates:

verb

Remove the hair from.

Usage examples:

I depilated my underarms and legs

Meanings of Depilator:

noun

An instrument that removes unwanted body hair, typically by plucking it from the root.

Usage examples:

It's very difficult to control the temperature of depilators, which require preliminary heating.

Meanings of Depilatory:

adjective

Used to remove unwanted hair.

Usage examples:

Developed and tested in a government lab 10 years before, the dehairing system removed hair and dir…

noun

A cream or lotion for removing unwanted hair.

Usage examples:

Many hand and body lotions, facial creams, soaps and depilatories contain honey, which can be used …

Meanings of Deplane:

verb

Disembark from an aircraft.

Usage examples:

We landed and deplaned

Meanings of Deplaned:

verb

Disembark from an aircraft.

Usage examples:

We landed and deplaned

Meanings of Deplanes:

verb

Disembark from an aircraft.

Usage examples:

We landed and deplaned

Meanings of Depletable:

adjective

A depletable resource (= something useful or valuable) is no longer available when people have used it, or cannot be produced as quickly as it is used

Usage examples:

His goal is to make the state less dependent on oil, coal, and other depletable resources.

Meanings of Deplete:

verb

Use up the supply or resources of.

Usage examples:

Reservoirs have been depleted by years of drought

Meanings of Depleted:

verb

Use up the supply or resources of.

Usage examples:

Reservoirs have been depleted by years of drought