devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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(verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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(verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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(verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
(verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
(verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
(verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
(verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
(verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
(verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
(verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
(verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
(verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
(verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
(verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
(verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
(verb) generate gradually | - |
(verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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(verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
(verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
(verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
(verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
(verb) to consume | - |
(verb) enjoy avidly | - |