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3. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering; robbery, theft, thievery, stealing.
4. dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement, Law. disseizin; confiscation, appropriation, expropriation.
despond, v. be depressed, be cast down, despair; lose hope of, lose heart, give up, surrender, quit, Sl. pack it in, give up the ship, cry quits, cry craven, throw in the towel, throw in the sponge; falter, give way, sink, droop, pine away; mope, mourn, lament, grieve, sorrow.
despondency, n. 1. dejection, depression, mopishness, Psychiatry, hypochondria; slough of despond, doldrums, dumps, blues; hopelessness, dishearten-ment, dismay, discouragement; defeatism, pessimism. 2. gloom, melancholy, melancholia, misery, miserableness, wretchedness, distress, broken-heartedness; grief, sadness, sorrow, dolor, anguish; disconsolateness, unconsolability, desperation.
despondent, adj. dejected, depressed, Sl. bummed out, weighed down, burdened, Inf. broken, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal; disheartened, dispirited, low-spirited, Brit, hipped, downhearted, downcast, down, Inf. down in the dumps; discouraged, daunted, distressed, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, heartsick, Inf. broken-up; cheerless, glum, gloomy, doleful, Archaic, wan; saddened, sad, blue, forlorn, melancholy, mopey, mopish; miserable, morose, woebegone, heavy-hearted, disconsolate, sorrowful, mournful, lachrymose, funereal.
despot, n. autocrat, dictator, tyrant, oppressor; monocrat, autarch, absolute or supreme ruler, monarch, soverign, emperor; lord, master, overlord.
despotic, adj. 1. tyrannical, tyrannous, oppressive, despotical; iron-handed, strict, harsh, severe, hard, stern, authoritarian; monarchical, lordly, haughty, arrogant, overbearing, domineering; imperious, dictatorial, peremptory, high-handed, Inf. bossy.
2. autocratic, absolute, unlimited, omnipotent, allpowerful, totalitarian, monocratic.
despotism, n. 1. absolutism, totalitarianism, autocracy, monocracy, one-man rule, one-party rule; czarism, Caesarism, kaiserism, Stalinism, imperialism; U.S. (usu. of politics) bossism.
2. supremacy, sovereignty, absolute power or control, uncontrolled or unlimited authority, complete control, domination; iron hand or fist, iron rod, iron rule; tyranny, oppression, repression, suppression.
3. autocracy, autarchy, dictatorship, totalitarian state, absolute monarchy, sovereignty, sovereign state.
destination, n. 1. place or point of debarkation, where [s.o.] is going or bound, where [s.o.] gets off, journey's end; stop, stopping place, landing place, station, port of call; terminus, last stop, end of the line, end of the road, Railroads, terminal.
2. purpose, intent, intention, design; reason, motive, motivation, raison d'etre; goal, objective, object, end, aim.
destine, v. 1. design, intend, purpose, mean, resolve, determine, set; designate, dedicate, allot, Obs. appoint; mark, earmark, tag, set apart or aside; consecrate, devote; reserve, Brit, bespeak; plan, project.
2. fate, ordain, doom, Rare, destinate; predetermine, predestine, Obs. predestinate, preordain, foreordain, foreordinate, predecide, foredoom, Inf. have in store for.
destined, adj. 1. bound for, on the way to or towards, Inf. headed for; routed, booked, scheduled.
2. designed, intended, meant, determined, set; designated, dedicated, alloted; engaged, reserved, Brit.
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