devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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(noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
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 |
devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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(verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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(adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
(adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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(noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
(noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
(noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
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 |
developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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(adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
(adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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developmentally | (adverb) with respect to development | - |
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deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
(verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
(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 |
deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
(noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
(noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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(noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
(noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
(noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
(noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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(noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
(noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
(verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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(noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
(noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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(adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
(adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilishly |
devilishly | (adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilish |
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(adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, insanely, madly |
(adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: diabolically, fiendishly |
devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
(adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
deviously | (adverb) in a devious manner | - |
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deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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(noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
(verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
(verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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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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devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
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 | - |
devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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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 | - |
devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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(adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
devotedly | (adverb) with devotion | - |
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devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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devotion | (noun) (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) | - |
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(noun) commitment to some purpose | - |
(noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, veneration |
(noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotedness |
devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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(noun) a short religious service | - |
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 | - |
devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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(adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
devoutly | (adverb) in a devout and pious manner | Synonyms: piously |
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devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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