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desgraciado
adjective
unfortunate
to disgrace; to ruin; to punish; to seriously injure or kill someone; to damage or spoil
desgranadora
noun, feminine
grainer (machine)
to shuck, shell; to come loose, fall off; to spell out; to have sex, bang, shag
desgranulación
noun, feminine
degranulation
desgrasante
noun, masculine
antiplastic (substance added to clay to make it less malleable)
to degrease
desgravable
adjective
tax-deductible
desgravación
noun, feminine
relief
desgravamen
noun, masculine
The waiving of the debt passed down to the next of kin of a deceased mortgage payer
to deduct, write off; to claim back tax
desgreñado
adjective
shaggy; seedy, untidy, unkempt
desguace
noun, masculine
scrapyard, junkyard; scrapping
desgualamido
adjective
unkempt
desgualetado
adjective
unkempt
desguamilado
adjective
unkempt; not kept up.
to disembowel (rip the innards out of)
disheveled
to strip, empty; to unharness (a horse); to strip down; to dismantle
desguazadero
noun, masculine
breaker; demolisher (of ships, cars etc.)
desguazado
noun, masculine
boat breaking
desguazador
noun, masculine
breaker, stripper
to destroy, cut into pieces; to scrap (dispose at the scrapyard)
to remove from government control; to deregulate
to cut cloth or rags
deshabilitación
noun, feminine
disablement
to disable (to render unable; to take away the ability); to disable (to deactivate a function of an electronic or mechanical device)
deshabitado
adjective
uninhabited
to move away from; move out of; to depopulate
deshabituación
noun, feminine
kicking of a habit
to get (someone) off (an addiction); dishabituate
to undo, to unmake; to unpack; to break, to break up (e.g. a treaty, a business, a band, a united effort); to take back (something done or said); to reverse (a spell or curse)
deshacimiento
noun, masculine
undoing; riddance
deshalogenación
noun, feminine
dehalogenation
desharrapado
adjective
ragged, raggedy
to unravel; to shred, to tear to pieces
deshecho
adjective
undone; destroyed, broken (into pieces, not out of order); reverted (a command, magic, witchcraft, effect, etc.); melted (ice, gelatine, wax, etc.); very tired or exhausted, strengthless
to melt
desheredación
noun, feminine
disinheritance
to disinherit
deshidratación
noun, feminine
dehydration
deshidratado
adjective
dehydrated
deshidratador
noun, masculine
dehydrator
deshidratador
adjective
dehydrating
deshidratante
adjective
dehydrating
to dehydrate
deshidratasa
noun, feminine
dehydratase
dehydroascorbate
deshidrogenación
noun, feminine
dehydrogenation
deshidrogenasa
noun, feminine
dehydrogenase
to dehydrogenate
deshidrohalogenación
noun, feminine
dehydrohalogenation
deshidroxilación
noun, feminine
dehydroxylation
deshielo
noun, masculine
thaw; defrosting
deshierbe
noun, masculine
weeding
deshilachado
adjective
frayed, torn
to fray
to unravel; to pull
to untack; to remove basting threads from; to unravel (to clear from complication or difficulty)
to let down (a tire, balloon, etc.); to deflate; to let out (rage, stress, etc.)