| advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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| affect | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
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| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| antecede | (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| barbecue | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
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| becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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| bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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| (verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
| (verb) appear inviting | - |
| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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| bottleneck | (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
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| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| collect | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| confect | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
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| (verb) make or construct | - |
| confection | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confect |
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| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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| correct | (verb) treat a defect | - |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| countercheck | (verb) check a second time | - |
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| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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| decay | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate |
| (verb) undergo decay or decomposition | - |
| decease | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decide | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: determine, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, resolve, settle |
| (verb) cause to decide | - |
| (verb) influence or determine | - |
| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
| decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| deck | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
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| (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
| declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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| (verb) state firmly | - |
| (verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
| (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
| (verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
| (verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
| (verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
| (verb) authorize payments of | - |
| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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| decline | (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
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| (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
| (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
| (verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
| (verb) go down | - |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| decoct | (verb) extract the essence of something by boiling it | - |
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| (verb) steep in hot water | - |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, reduce |
| decode | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decrypt |
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| decoke | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize |
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| decollate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decapitate |
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| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolonize | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonise |
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| decolor | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolour | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decontrol | (verb) relax or remove controls of | - |
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| decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| decoy | (verb) lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy | - |
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| decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decree | (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) issue a decree | - |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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