decrease
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～ decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
decrease
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～ make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
decree
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～ decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed"
decree
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～ issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
decrepitate
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～ undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated"
decrepitate
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～ to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts"
decrescendo
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～ grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here"
decriminalise
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～ make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
decriminalize
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～ make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
decry
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～ express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
decrypt
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～ convert code into ordinary language
decussate
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～ cross or intersect so as to form a cross; "this nerve decussates the other"; "the fibers decussate"
dedicate
— Verb
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～ set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
dedicate
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～ give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
dedicate
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～ open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building; "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"
dedicate
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～ inscribe or address by way of compliment; "She dedicated her book to her parents"
dedifferentiate
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～ lose specialization in form or function
deduce
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～ conclude by reasoning; in logic
deduce
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～ reason by deduction; establish by deduction
deduct
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～ make a subtraction; "subtract this amount from my paycheck"