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A piece of furniture with a flat surface for writing, reading, or working at, typically with drawers.

A male given name of Irish origin.

The complete loss or absence of hope.

Feeling, showing, or involving despair; having lost all hope.

In a way that shows despair or desperation.

A state of despair, typically one that results in rash or extreme behavior.

Deserving hatred and contempt; morally reprehensible.

To feel contempt or a deep repugnance for someone or something.

Without being affected by; in spite of.

A sweet course eaten at the end of a meal.

The place to which someone or something is going or being sent.

Certain to meet a particular fate or achieve something; intended for a specific purpose.

The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future; fate.

To completely ruin or put an end to something; to damage beyond repair.

Past tense and past participle of destroy; caused severe damage to something so that it no longer exists or functions.

A person or thing that destroys.

Present participle of destroy; causing severe damage to something.

Third person singular present tense of destroy; causes severe damage to something.

The action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

Causing great and irreparable harm or damage.

An individual feature, fact, or item.

Having many details or facts; showing attention to detail.

Individual facts or pieces of information about something.

To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

Kept someone in official custody, typically for questioning.

To discover or identify the presence or existence of something.

Discovered or identified the presence of something.

The action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed.

A person, especially a police officer, whose job is to investigate crimes.

People whose job is to investigate crimes.

A device designed to discover the presence of something and emit a signal.

The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody.

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose.

To establish or discover something by calculation or research.

Having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.

To explode or cause to explode.

A device or small amount of explosive used to initiate detonation in an explosive.

A long or roundabout route taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way.

A major city in southeastern Michigan, United States, historically known as the center of the American automobile industry.

Short for developer, especially a software developer.

Severely shocked and upset; emotionally shattered.

Highly destructive or damaging.

To grow or cause to grow more mature, advanced, or elaborate.

(Of a country or region) having advanced economic and social infrastructure.

(Of a country or region) in the process of economic and social advancement.

The process of growing or causing something to grow more advanced.

Events or changes that are new or significant.

A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

Things made for particular purposes, especially electronic equipment.

(In Christian and Jewish belief) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan.