DEPENDENT | • dependent adj. Relying upon; depending upon. • dependent adj. (Statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event. • dependent adj. (Of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such… |
DEPEOPLED | • depeopled v. Simple past tense and past participle of depeople. • DEPEOPLE v. to reduce the population of. |
DEPREDATE | • depredate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon. • DEPREDATE v. to plunder or prey upon. |
DEPREHEND | • deprehend v. To take unawares or by surprise; to catch or seize (A criminal etc.) in the act. • deprehend v. To detect; to discover; to find out. • DEPREHEND v. (obsolete) to catch; to seize. |
DEPRESSED | • depressed v. Simple past tense and past participle of depress. • depressed adj. Unhappy; despondent. • depressed adj. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. |
DEVELOPED | • developed adj. (Said of a country) Not primitive; not third-world. • developed adj. Mature. • developed adj. Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on. |
EXPEDITED | • expedited v. Simple past tense and past participle of expedite. • expedited adj. Accelerated. • expedited adj. Arranged, executed or dispatched quickly or more efficiently. |
PEDIGREED | • pedigreed adj. (Chiefly of an animal) Having a pedigree; purebred. • PEDIGREED adj. having a pedigree. |
PERPENDED | • perpended v. Simple past tense and past participle of perpend. • PERPEND v. to weigh in the mind; to consider carefully. |
PREEDITED | • preedited v. Simple past tense and past participle of preedit. • PREEDIT v. to edit beforehand. |
PREHENDED | • prehended v. Simple past tense and past participle of prehend. • PREHEND v. to lay hold of; to seize. |
PRETENDED | • pretended v. Simple past tense and past participle of pretend. • pretended adj. Feigned; counterfeit. • PRETEND v. to make believe. |
PROCEEDED | • proceeded v. Simple past tense and past participle of proceed. • PROCEED v. to go onward. |
REPLEADED | • repleaded v. (Britain, excepting Scotland) simple past tense and past participle of replead. • REPLEAD v. to plead again. |
REPLEDGED | • repledged v. Simple past tense and past participle of repledge. • REPLEDGE v. to pledge again. |
SPEEDREAD | • speedread v. (Transitive, intransitive) To read quickly, usually at an accelerated rate or unusually high level of… • speed-read v. Alternative form of speedread. • speed␣read v. Alternative form of speedread. |
SPELDERED | • speldered v. Simple past tense and past participle of spelder. • SPELDER v. (Scots) to spread open, sprawl, also SPELD. |