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dételer: to unyoke (a bull), unharness (a horse); unhitch, uncouple (a wagon); to knock off, stop working
détendeur: regulator
détendre: to relax; to help relax, to calm; to loosen, to untighten; to remove or pull down something hung
détendu: loose, slack; relaxed
détenir: to detain; to possess, to have, to hold
détente: relaxation, détente; trigger (firearms); height to which one is able to jump; expansion of a gas or a spring
détenteur: holder; holder (of e.g. a record)
détention: detention; possession, keeping, holding
détention provisoire: remand, custody
détention préventive: remand, custody, pre-trial detention, preventive detention
détenu: detainee, prisoner, inmate
détenu: detained; imprisoned, confined; retaining
déter: diehard, hellbent, determined (resolute, possessing much determination)
détergent: detergent
détergent: detergent
déterger: "(med.) to deterge; to absterge, to cleanse"
déterminable: determinable
déterminant: determiner; determinant
déterminant: determining, decisive, deciding
déterminant possessif: possessive determiner
déterminatif: determinative
détermination: determination
déterminer: to determine, establish
déterminisme: determinism
déterministe: determinist
déterministe: deterministic
déterministique: deterministic
déterministiquement: deterministically
déterminé: determined, resolute, (possessing much determination); precise; exact
déterminément: determinedly; in a determined way
déterrable: exhumable
déterrer: to dig up; to exhume, disinter
déterrer la hache de guerre: to take up the hatchet, to go on the warpath, to be back on the warpath
détersif: detersive
détersif: detersive
détersion: detersion
détestable: detestable, despicable; awful, terrible, very bad at something
détestablement: detestably
détestation: detestation, abhorrence
détester: to hate, to detest (to thoroughly dislike)
détiarer: to deprive of one's tiara; to discrown
détimbrer: to cause a voice to lose its timbre
détirer: to stretch (by pulling)
détiser: "to rake out (the fire); to still, to quell"
détisser: to unweave
détonable: detonable, detonatable
détonateur: detonator
détonation: detonation
détoner: to detonate
détonner: to sing out of tune; to stick out, to stick out like a sore thumb
détordre: to untwist
détorquer: to distort, to misrepresent
détortiller: "to untwist; to unravel"; "to become untwisted; to unravel"
détouper: "to unstop, to take out the bung or stopple; to take the tow out of"
détoupillonner: "to prune (orange-trees)"
détour: detour; curve; evasion
détournement: rerouting, diversion; detournement; embezzlement, misappropriation (of funds); reinterpretation, reimagining, repurposing, repackaging; hijacking
détournement de fonds: embezzlement, misappropriation
détournement de mineur: statutory rape
détourner: to divert, to redirect; to distract, to divert (attention); to hijack; to embezzle; to turn aside, to turn away, to avert (from something)