deter
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～ turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
deter
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～ try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
deterge
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～ wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body; "This drug is powerful enough to deterge"
deteriorate
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～ grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
deteriorate
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～ become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"
determine
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～ settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
determine
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～ fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property"
determine
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～ reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
determine
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～ decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
determine
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～ find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
determine
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～ establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
determine
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～ shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
determine
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～ fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"
detest
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～ dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"
dethaw
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～ become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
dethrone
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～ remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned"
detonate
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～ burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction; "the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
detonate
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～ cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"