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dédicataire: dedicatee
dédicatoire: dedicatory
dédier: to dedicate
dédifférenciation: dedifferentiation
dédire: to go back on, retract
dédit: forfeit
dédommagement: compensation
dédommager: to compensate; to make up for
dédopé: dedoped
dédorer: to tarnish
dédouanement: customs clearance
dédouaner: to clear through customs; to excuse from responsibility, usually too lightly; to let off the hook
dédoublement: doubling, duplication
dédoubler: to reunite; to put back together; to separate; to share out; to duplicate
dédoublonner: to remove duplicates from a list
dédramatisation: dedramatization
dédramatiser: to play down; to make less dramatic or daunting
déductibilité: deductibility
déductible: deductible
déductif: deductive
déduction: deduction; deduction (process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific)
déduire: to deduce; to work out; to deduct
déduit: sexual intercourse, sex
déduit: deducted
déesse: goddess
défaillance: fainting spell; faintness; dizziness; weakness; failure
défaillance de marché: market failure
défaillant: faulty (device, system etc.); failing (health, memory); fainting (person)
défaillent: third-person plural present subjunctive/indicative of défaillir
défailles: second-person singular present subjunctive/indicative of défaillir
défaillir: to faint, feel faint; to weaken, falter, fail (of strength, courage etc.)
défaire: to take down, take apart, dismantle, unpack (luggage); to undo, unfasten, unwind; to break, break up, unmake; to defeat, conquer; to come undone, fall apart, disintegrate
défaisance: defeasance
défaite: defeat, loss
défaitisme: defeatism
défaitiste: defeatist
défaitiste: defeatist
défalcation: deduction (act of deducting), defalcation
défalquer: to deduct; to recoup
défanage: the killing of the tops of plants such as potatoes before harvesting
défaner: to kill the tops of plants such as potatoes before harvesting
défausse: graveyard (deck of discarded cards)
défausser: to straighten; to discard (in a card game)
défaut: shortcoming; defect; default (computing)
défaveur: disfavour
défavorable: unfavourable, disadvantageous
défavorablement: unfavorably
défavoriser: to disfavour; put out; to disadvantage, to treat unfairly; to discriminate
défavorisé: disenfranchised, underprivileged (not represented); disadvantaged; poor, low-income (of a neighbourhood)
défectible: imperfect, incomplete
défectiblement: imperfectly, incompletely
défectif: defective (said of a verb that does not conjugate itself at all, does not conjugate itself anymore, or that only conjugates itself in certain persons or in certain tenses)
défection: defection
défectivement: defectively
défectivité: defectivity
défectueusement: defectively (in a way that malfunctions)
défectueux: faulty, defective
défectuosité: defectiveness; defect, fault, imperfection
défendable: justifiable, defensible, within reason
défendeur: defendant, (the) accused