| deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| delay | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: detain, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: detain, stay |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, retard |
| (verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required | - |
| delegate | (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
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| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deliberate | (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
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| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| delight | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delineate | (verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
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| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| deluge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetise |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetise |
| demand | (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
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| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| dematerialize | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialise |
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| demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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| demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
| demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| demise | (verb) transfer by a lease or by a will | - |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| demo | (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demonstrate, exhibit, present, show |
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| demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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| demonetize | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetise |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demonize | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonise |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralize | (verb) confuse or put into disorder | - |
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| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demote | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, kick downstairs, relegate |
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| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| demur | (verb) object to | Synonyms: except |
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| (verb) enter a demurrer | - |
| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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| demythologise | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologize |
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| demythologize | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologise |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denationalize | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalise |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| denazify | (verb) free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | - |
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| denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
| denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| denote | (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: refer |
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| (verb) be a sign or indication of | - |
| (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: announce |
| denounce | (verb) speak out against | - |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) announce the termination of, as of treaties | - |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| dent | (verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: indent |
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| denudate | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
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| denude | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, strip |
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| deny | (verb) declare untrue; contradict | - |
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| (verb) refuse to accept or believe | - |
| (verb) refuse to recognize or acknowledge | - |
| (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: traverse |
| (verb) refuse to let have | Synonyms: refuse |
| (verb) refuse to grant, as of a petition or request | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: abnegate |
| deodorise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorize, deodourise |
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| deodorize | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodourise |
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| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| deoxidize | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, reduce |
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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
| depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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| deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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| deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| deplore | (verb) express strong condemnation of | - |
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| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, lament |
| deploy | (verb) to distribute systematically or strategically | Synonyms: roll out |
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| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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| depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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| (verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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