| 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 |
| 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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| demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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| 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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| 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 |
| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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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 |
| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| 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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| deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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| depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| derange | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: perturb, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: unbalance |
| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| derecognize | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognise |
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| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| desalinise | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinize, desalt |
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| desalinize | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalt |
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| descant | (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
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| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
| desensitize | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
| design | (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
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| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
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| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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| destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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| detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
| determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
| dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| dimension | (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
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| (verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| din | (verb) instill (into a person) by constant repetition | - |
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| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: boom |
| dine | (verb) have supper; eat dinner | - |
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| (verb) give dinner to; host for dinner | - |
| ding | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: dingdong, dong |
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| dingdong | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dong |
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| dinge | (verb) make dingy | - |
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| (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: batter |
| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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| discipline | (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
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| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disconnect | (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
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| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| discontent | (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
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| discontinue | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, stop |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) come to or be at an end | - |
| discount | (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
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| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
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| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| disdain | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
| disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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| (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
| (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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