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déliter: to split and crumble (of stratified rock); to disintegrate
délitescence: delitescence
délitescent: delitescent
délivrable: deliverable
délivrance: deliverance, relief, liberation; afterbirth
délivrer: to set free; to deliver (a message); to deliver a child
délié: the thin upstroke of a handwritten letter
délié: slender, fine; nimble (fingers), astute (mind)
délocalisable: relocatable; delocalizable
délocalisation: relocation; outsourcing, offshoring; delocalization
délocaliser: to offshore (moving an industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, usually seeking lower business costs, like labor); to delocalize
délocalisé: outsourced, offshore; relocated; delocalized
délocutif: delocutive
délogeable: dislodgeable, moveable
délogement: dislodgement
déloger: to move out (of e.g. a house); to kick out, expel (from e.g. a house); to dislodge
déloyal: disloyal; unfair
déloyalement: disloyally, traitorously
déloyauté: disloyalty
déluge: the Deluge, the Flood; deluge (large amount of precipitation); deluge (an overwhelming amount of something)
déluré: sharp, smart, resourceful; forward
délustrer: to take off the lustre, the gloss of
déluter: to unlute
délégalisation: delegalization
délégataire: delegatee
délégateur: delegator
délégation: delegation; devolvement
délégiférer: to delegislate (repeal legislation)
délégitimation: delegitimization
délégitimer: to delegitimize
déléguer: to delegate (to commit a task to someone), depute; to devolve; to appoint, commission
délégué: delegate
délégué de classe: class president, class representative, class delegate, class monitor (student representative)
délégué du personnel: staff representative, workers' representative
délégué syndical: shop steward, workers' representative (local member of a trade union elected to represent his fellow workers in discussions with the management at a workplace)
délétion: deletion
délétère: hazardous to health and life; pernicious, nocive, toxic; harmful to situations or relations; injurious, damaging
délétèrement: deleteriously
démagnétisation: demagnetization
démagnétiser: to demagnetize
démagogie: demagogy; demagogism
démagogique: demagogic, demagogical
démagogiquement: demagogically
démagogue: demagogue
démagogue: demagogic
démailler: to unravel
démailloter: to unswathe; unswaddle
démancher: to take off the handle; to lose its handle; to go wrong; to get out of the channel; to shift
démangeaison: itch (on one's skin)
démanger: to itch, to cause to feel itchy; to cause to have the desire to, to cause to itch for action
démanteler: to dismantle
démantibuler: to smash to smithereens
démantèlement: disassembly, dismantling
démaquillage: the act of removing makeup
démaquillant: makeup remover
démaquillant: cleansing
démaquiller: to remove makeup
démarcation: demarcation; dividing line
démarchage: door-to-door selling; canvassing
démarche: gait, walk; step, procedure, move, intervention; reasoning