| 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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