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dérapage: skid; action of skidding
déraper: to skid, to slide; to drag; to get out of hand, to get out of control
dérater: to take out, to extract, the spleen
dératisable: derattable
dératisation: deratization
dératiser: derat; rid of rats
dératiseur: exterminator (not just of rats)
dératé: that has undergone splenectomy to improve its running
dératé: a person who has undergone splenectomy
dérembourser: to no longer reimburse
déresponsabilisant: disempowering, taking away a person's sense of responsibility
déresponsabiliser: to remove all sense of responsibility from someone, to make someone think that they have free rein
dérider: to smooth, remove the wrinkles from; to brighten up, cheer up
déringardiser: to make un-outdated; to make something outdated be in fashion again
dérision: derision
dérisoire: paltry, trivial; hollow, pathetic
dérisoirement: derisorily, trivially, pathetically
dérivabilité: differentiability
dérivable: derivable; differentiable
dérivatif: Causing a derivation (a drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process); derivative
dérivatif: a medicine that causes a derivation; diversion, distraction
dérivation: diversion; derivation
dérivation inverse: back-formation
dérivation régressive: back-formation
dérivationnel: derivational
dérive: drift; centreboard; leeway; dérive (revolutionary strategy)
dérive des continents: continental drift (the slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics)
dériver: to unrivet
dériver: to derive (originate from); to drift; to derive; to redirect, to divert; to shunt
dérives: plural of dérive; excesses, abuses
dériveur: dinghy (with a centreboard)
dérivomètre: drift meter
dérivé: a derivation of any sort; a derived term, derivative
dérivée: a derived one of any sort (of feminine grammatical gender); derivative (in analysis: value of a function)
dérivée partielle: partial derivative
dérivée première: first derivative, first-order derivative
dérivée seconde: second derivative, second-order derivative
dérobade: evasion, avoidance
dérober: to conceal, screen, shield (à from); to steal (à from); to turn away (one's head, gaze etc.); to shirk, shy away (à from); to hide (oneself)
dérobé: concealed (door, feature etc.)
dérocher: to remove rocks from
dérogation: dispensation; derogation, exemption
dérogatoire: dispensatory
déroger: to repeal (a law); to break, contravene, infringe (a law), to break away (from a tradition)
dérougir: unredden, deredden (to cause to stop being red); unredden (to cease being red, to lose redness)
dérougisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of dérougir
dérouillage: derusting (rust removal)
dérouiller: to derust, to remove rust from; to get back into, dust off; to lose rust; to come back
dérouillée: thrashing, beating
dérouine: derouine
déroulant: unrolling, unravelling, unfolding; breaking (of waves); dropdown, pull-down
déroulement: unfolding, event, occurrence
dérouler: to unroll; to break; to unravel, to unfold
dérouleur: toilet roll holder; paper towel holder, (UK) kitchen roll holder; dispenser
déroutant: uncanny (strange, mysteriously unsettling); jinky
déroute: rout, ruin (state of being in ruin)
dérouter: to reroute, derail (cause to change path); to set back; to disconcert
dérusher: to log or select videos (in the process of editing dailies)
dérèglement: malfunctioning, breakdown, disorder
dérèglementer: post-1990 spelling of déréglementer