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dépensier: spendthrift, profligate
dépensier: spendthrift
déperdition: diminution, decreasement, diminishment (gradual reduction)
dépersonnalisation: depersonalization
dépersonnaliser: to depersonalise
dépersuader: to dissuade
dépeuplement: depopulation
dépeupler: to depopulate
dépeçage: chopping up, dismemberment; taking apart, break-up; division, separation; breaking-up (of old boats); the joint application of norms from different jurisdictions or legal systems.
déphasage: dephasing
déphaser: to dephase
déphlogistiquer: to dephlogisticate
déphlogistiqué: dephlogisticated
déphosphoration: dephosphorization
déphosphoryler: to dephosphorylate
dépiauter: to skin; to undress; to dismantle
dépigmentation: depigmentation
dépilation: depilation
dépilatoire: depilatory
dépiler: to depilate
dépiquer: to make feel better
dépistage: tracking; screening
dépister: to track an animal using its tracks; to derail; to screen; to shake off, throw off
dépit: scorn
dépiter: to vex greatly, frustrate greatly; to get annoyed
dépité: greatly vexed, greatly frustrated
déplacement: trip, journey; movement (act of moving from one place to another) shift; a move (action of moving); displacement
déplacer: to move; to go around, to move about; to come over, to go over to, to make a house call, as to travel to perform some work
déplacer des montagnes: to move mountains (to do seemingly impossible things)
déplacé: inappropriate, uncalled-for; rude, offensive
déplaire: to be displeasing or disliked; to be ill at ease
déplaisamment: unpleasantly
déplaisant: unpleasant
déplaisir: displeasure
déplantation: deplantation
déplanter: to deplant
dépliant: leaflet; flyer
dépliant: unfolding (able to unfold)
déplier: to unfold (undo the action of folding)
déplissage: unwrinkling
déplisser: to unwrinkle
déploiement: deployment, deploying
déplorable: lamentable, regrettable
déplorablement: deplorably
déplorer: to deplore, to rue, to lament
déployer: to spread out, to unfold; to deploy (troops, etc.)
déplumer: to pluck (feathers from a living bird); to lose feathers
déplumé: plucked (de-feathered)
déplâtrage: The removal from plaster.
déplâtrer: to remove from plaster
déplétion: depletion
dépoitraillé: with shirt/clothes open to the waist; bare-chested
dépolarisation: depolarization
dépolariser: to depolarize
dépoli: frosted (glass)
dépolir: to unpolish
dépolissage: The act of unpolishing.
dépolitisation: depoliticization
dépolitiser: to depoliticize, depoliticise
dépolitisé: depoliticized