Dutch–English dictionary

dauw

(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

dauwig

Covered by dew.

de

Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

de (diepten der) hel

(poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17th century.]

de angel halen uit

(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.

de borst geven

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

de broek aftrekken

To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

de confrontatie aangaan met

(transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.

de contouren vluchtig schetsen

To give a vague outline.

de dijne

(archaic, EME) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

de dingen die voorbij zijn

(usually, in the plural) An event that happened in the past.

de facto

In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.

de fles geven

(transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.

de grond in boren

(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.

de Grote

Important, consequential.

de hare

That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]

de hunne

That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.

de jouwe

(archaic, EME) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

de kluts kwijt

Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. [from early 19th c.]

de knoop

A difficult situation.

de kriebels hebben

(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

de laan uitsturen

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

de liefde bedrijven

(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

de max

(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

de mens

The genus Homo.

de moeite lonend

Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.

de moeite waard

(idiomatic) Beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.

de moeite waard zijn

Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.

de onze

(colloquial, may seem patronising) That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.

de snelheidslimiet overschrijden

To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.

de sterren betreffend

(astronomy, notcomp) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.

de stervenden

Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

de tafel dekken

To arrange plates, etc. for a meal.

de uwe

(archaic, EME) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

de vlag strijken

(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

de vorm aannemen van

(intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.

de woede opwekken van

(transitive) To anger or infuriate.

de zak geven

(transitive, chiefly, US, idiom) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.

de zijne

That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.

de-

reversal, undoing

de-audituverklaring

(law) An out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.

de-installeren

(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.

deactiveren

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

dealen

(ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

dealer

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.

debacle

(figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. [from early 19th c.]

debat

An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

debatteren

(ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]

debiel

(figuratively, US, _, slang, vulgar)

debiet

The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.

debiteur

(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.

debitrice

(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.

deblokkeren

(transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.

debuggen

(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

debutant

A person (especially a male) who débuts, or appears for the first time.

debutante

A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.

debuut

A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.

deca

(informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.

decaan

A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).

decaf

(informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.

december

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

decennium

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

deceptie

A fraudulent deal.

decimaal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

decimaalstelsel

(countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

decimale

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

declameren

To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

declaratie

An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

declareren

(transitive) To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.

declinatie

(grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

decoder

A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal

decoderen

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

decompositie

The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

decor

A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.

decoratie

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

decoratief

That serves to decorate

decoreren

To decorate.

decoupeerzaag

A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.

decriminaliseren

(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.

decrypteren

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

dedicatie

(countable) A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.

deduceren

(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.

deeg

A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

deegwaren

(uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

deel

(countable) Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

deel-

Subsidiary, secondary.

deelbaarheid

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

deelname

The act of participating, of taking part in something.

deelnemen

(formal) To take part in an activity; to participate. [with in]

deelnemend

Open to participation.

deelnemer

A participant in a contest; specifically, a person who plays a game, as on a TV game show.

deelneming

The act of participating, of taking part in something.

deelraad

An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.

deelredactie

A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.

deelrepubliek

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

deelruimte

(countable, mathematics) A subset of a space which is a space in its own right.

deels

To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.

deeltal

(finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).

deeltje

(countable) Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

deelverzameling

(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.

deelwoord

(grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

deelwoordelijk

(grammar) Of, relating to, or being a participle.

deemoed

The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.

deemoedig

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

deemoedigen

(transitive, often, reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

deemstering

The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

Deen

A person of Danish descent.

Deens

Of or pertaining to Denmark.

Deense

A person of Danish descent.

deerne

A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.

deernis

(by extension, psychology) Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such experiences, as reflected by the psychological term self-compassion.

deerniswekkend

To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.

dees

(vulgar, slang) The penis. [from the 20th c.]

defaitisme

Acceptance of defeat without struggle.

defect

(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.

defectief

Having one or more defects.

defensie

The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

defensief

Intended for defence; protective.

defilé

A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.

definiëren

To express the essential nature of something.

definiëring

The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.

definitie

The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.

definitief

determining finally, conclusive, decisive

deflatie

(economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.

defragmenteren

(computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.

degelijk

Belonging to oneself or itself; own. [14th c.]

degoutant

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

degraderen

(intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

dehydratie

The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

deinen

To surge or roll in billows.

deining

A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

deïsme

(philosophy) A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.

déjà vu

Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

dek

Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.

dekbed

(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

dekbedovertrek

(US) Short for duvet cover.

deken

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

dekhengst

A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).

dekken

(transitive) To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.

dekknecht

(nautical) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.

dekmantel

A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

deknaam

A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.

deksel

A lid.

deksels

(informal) Extreme, excessive.

dekzeil

(countable) A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.

dekzwabber

An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

del

A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.

delen

(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

Delfi

A city of ancient Greece, the site of the Delphic oracle.

Delhi

A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.