Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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deserted

ADJECTIVE A deserted building or place is one that people have left and never come back to.

deserve deserves, deserving, deserved

VERB If you deserve something, you earn it or have a right to it.

design designs, designing, designed

VERB 1 If you design something new, you plan what it should be like.

NOUN 2 a drawing from which something can be built or made

3 a decorative pattern of lines or shapes

desire desires, desiring, desired

VERB 1 If you desire something, you want it.

NOUN 2 a strong feeling of wanting something

SYNONYMS: longing, want, wish

desk desks

NOUN a piece of furniture with a flat or sloping top, which you sit at to write, read or work

desktop

ADJECTIVE small enough to be used at a desk • a desktop computer

desolate

ADJECTIVE 1 deserted and bleak • a desolate mountain top

2 lonely, very sad, and without hope

desolation NOUN

despair despairs, despairing, despaired

NOUN 1 a total loss of hope

VERB 2 If you despair, you lose hope.

desperate

ADJECTIVE 1 If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.

2 A desperate situation is extremely dangerous or serious.

despicable

ADJECTIVE Something that is despicable is nasty, cruel or evil.

despise despises, despising, despised

VERB If you despise someone or something, you have a very low opinion of them.

despite

PREPOSITION If you do something despite some difficulty, you manage to do it anyway.

dessert desserts

NOUN a sweet food that you eat at the end of a meal

destination destinations

NOUN the place you are going to

destined

ADJECTIVE meant to happen • They were destined to meet.

destiny destinies

NOUN Your destiny is your fate: the things that will happen to you in the future.

destitute

ADJECTIVE without money or possessions, and therefore in great need

destitution NOUN

destroy destroys, destroying, destroyed

VERB If you destroy something, you damage it so much that it is completely ruined.

SYNONYMS: demolish, ruin, wreck

destruction NOUN

destructive

ADJECTIVE Something that is destructive can cause great damage, harm or injury.

SYNONYM: damaging