Deplete Verb - decrease, drain, empty, evacuate, exhaust, expend, lessen, run downoun -

Deplorable Adjective - disastrous, disgraceful, disreputable, distressing, grievous, lamentable, miserable, pitiable, regrettable, reprehensible, sad, shameful, unfortunate, wretched.
Antonyms - commendable, excellent.

Deploy Verb - arrange, dispose, extend, position, utilise.

Deputy noun - agent, ambassador, assistant, commissary, delegate, lieutenant, proxy, representative, subordinate.

Depot n depository, garage, station, storehouse, terminus, ware-house.

Depreciate Verb - decrease, deflate, devalue, drop, fall, lessen, lower, minimise, reduce, underestimate, underrate.
Antonyms - appreciate, overrate.

Depress Verb1 daunt, deject, discourage, dishearten, exhaust, impair, lessen, lower, oppress, overburden, sadden, upset, weaken; weary. 2 bring down, devalue,lower.
Antonyms - 1 cheer, encourage. 2 increase, raise.

Depth noun - abyss, exhaustiveness, insight, measure, penetration, profoundness, richness, shrewdness, strength, thoroughness, wisdom.
Antonyms - shallowness, surface.

Deputation noun - appointment, delegation, embassy, mission, representatives.

Derive Verb - acquire, arise, borrow, descend, develop, draw, emanate, extract, follow, gain, issue, lift, obtain, originate, proceed, procure, receive, spring, trace.

Derogatory Adjective - defamatory, destructive, injurious, insulting, offensive, uncomplimentary.
Antonyms - appreciative, favourable.

Descend Verb - 1 alight, arrive, develop, dismount, drop, fall, invade, sink, slope, subside, swoop, tumble. 2 degenerate, deteriorate. 3 condescend, deign, stoop. 4 originate, proceed, stem.
Antonyms - t ascend, embark,rise.

Describe Verb - characterise, define, depict, detail, draw, explain, express, illustrate, mark out, narrate, outline, portray, present, relate, report, sketch, specify, trace.

Desert1 noun - void, wasteland, wilderness, wilds. affj. arid, bare, barren, desolate, dry, infertile, lonely, uncultivated, uninhabited; waste, wild.

Desert2 Verb - abandon, abscond, betray, decamp, deceive, defect, forsake, maroon, quit, relinquish, renounce.
Antonyms - stand by, support.

Desert noun - due, merit, payment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, reward, right, virtue, worth.

Deserve Verb - ask for, earn, incur justify, procure, rate, warrant, winoun -

Design noun - aim, arrangement, blueprint, composition, construction, draft, drawing, enterprise, figure, manoeuvre, model, motif, objective, outline, pattern, plot, project, prototype, scheme, shape, sketch, structure, style, undertaking.

Desire Verb - ask, covet, crave, fancy, hanker after, hunger for, long for, with for, yearn for.

Desist Verb - abstain, break off, cease, discontinue, forbear, give up, refrain, remit, stop, suspend.
Antonyms - continue, resume.

Desk noun - bureau, davenport, lectern, secretaire, writing-table.

Desolate Adjective - abandoned ,bare, barren, bereft, dejected, depressed, deserted, disheartened, dismayed, distressed, downcast, dreary, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, gloomy, lonely, miserable, solitary, uninhabited, waste, wild, wretched.
Antonyms - cheerful, populous.