dépensier, n.m., burser; (nav.) purser’s steward.
déperdition, n.f., deperdition, loss, waste; (med.) discharge.
dépérir, v.n., to perish, to decline, to pine away, to waste, to wither, to dwindle, to waste away, to decay, to go to ruin.
dépérissement (-ris-mān), n.m., wasting away, decay, withering, falling away.
dépersuader, v.a., to dissuade.
dépêtrer, v.a., to disentangle, to extricate, to disengage, to clear, to free.
se dépêtrer, v.r., to get out of; to rid one’s self of, to get clear of.
dépeuplement, n.m., depopulation; thinning (of forests).
dépeupler, v.a., to unpeople, to depopulate, to unstock, to thin. — un colombier; to unstock a pigeon-house. — une forêt; to thin a forest.
se dépeupler, v.r., to be depopulated, to be unstocked.