dab | (verb) to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil | - |
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(verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: pat |
(verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: swab, swob |
(verb) to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | - |
dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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(verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
(verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
dado | (verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
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(verb) provide with a dado | - |
dally | (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: play, trifle |
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(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
(verb) waste time | Synonyms: dawdle |
(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: flirt, play, toy |
dam | (verb) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam | Synonyms: dam up |
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damage | (verb) inflict damage upon | - |
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(verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage | - |
damascene | (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
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damn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
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damp | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken |
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(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: dampen, deaden |
(verb) restrain or discourage | - |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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(verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
(verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
(verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
dance | (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
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(verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
(verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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(verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
dapple | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
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dare | (verb) challenge | Synonyms: defy |
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(verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: make bold, presume |
(verb) to be courageous enough to try or do something | - |
darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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(verb) make dark or darker | - |
(verb) tarnish or stain | - |
darn | (verb) repair by sewing | - |
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dart | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
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(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
(verb) move with sudden speed | - |
dash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
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(verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
(verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
(verb) destroy or break | - |
date | (verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
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(verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
(verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
(verb) go on a date with | - |
(verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
dateline | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
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datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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daub | (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
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(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
(verb) apply to a surface | - |
daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
(verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
dawn | (verb) become light | - |
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(verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
(verb) appear or develop | - |
daydream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
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(verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
daze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, stun |
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(verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, dazzle |
dazzle | (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
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(verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
(verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
(verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
(verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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deaf | (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
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deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
(verb) be unbearably loud | - |
deal | (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
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(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
(verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
(verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
(verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
(verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
(verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
(verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
debate | (verb) argue with one another | - |
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(verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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(verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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(verb) make one's debut | - |
(verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
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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