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(US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.

A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.

Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

(relative) Of which, belonging to which.

(relative) Of which, belonging to which.

(transitive) To remove salt from; to desalinate.

(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

Intention or plot.

(transitive) To make loose.

A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated

Any of several types of film / movie, the frames of which are drawn by hand in order to give a sense of movement when projected in rapid sequence.

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

dessinateur de bande dessinée

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

dessinateur de dessins animés

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

dessinatrice de dessins animés

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

(transitive) To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. [from 12th c.]

Below or underneath.

dessous de verre

A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.

dessous-de-plat

A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.

dessous-de-table

The act of offering or paying such a payment: an act of bribery.

The highest or uppermost part of something.

dessus du panier

(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.

The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

destin tragique

Destiny, especially terrible.

The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

(countable) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

(archaic) The act of destining or appointing.

(transitive) To set apart for a special use.

The removal of someone from office.

(historical, military) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.

That which destroys something.

destructeur de portance

(aeronautics) A device to reduce lift and increase drag.

Able to be destroyed.

Causing destruction; damaging.

That which destroys something.

(idiomatic) Out of date; old-fashioned; obsolete; outmoded; outdated.

A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.

Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.

The lack of unity or cohesion.

Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

(military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.

(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

(uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.

Detailing every action or occurrence completely.

(transitive) To explain in detail.

(uncountable) A profusion of details.

To run with quick light steps, to scamper.

That which can be detected, noticeable.

Having been noticed.

To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.

A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.

The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.

(figurative, informal) A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.

détective privé

Person who is not a government official who is hired to provide information about a person or group that is not widely available

(transitive) To make something loose.

Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely. [from 18th c.]

(transitive, law enforcement) To put under custody.

(chiefly, _, politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.

A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.

Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.

Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.

Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.

Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.

détérioration

The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

Rendered less effective.

(transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.

Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.

Firm, unyielding, determined.

(obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.

(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.

Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.

Disliked; odious; reviled.

(transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.

A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.

A sudden percussive noise.

(transitive) To cause to explode.

To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.

A diversion or deviation from one's original route.

(legal, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

(transitive) To turn aside or away.

détourner le courant électrique

(transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

A detoxification unit.

A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.

A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.

(UK, Irish, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

Harm, hurt, damage.

(uncountable) Such material that is disposed.

The largest city and former capital of Michigan, United States, a major port on the Detroit River, known as the traditional automotive center of the U.S. It is the county seat of Wayne County.

Removal from a superior place in a hierarchy.

To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

(transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.

deutéragoniste

(narratology) A secondary character; specifically, the second most important character (after the protagonist).

(uncountable, isotope) An isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron in each atom - 21H.

(isotope) the nucleus of deuterium, consisting of a proton and a neutron

The fifth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fifth book in the Torah.

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

deux ou trois...

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks.

A brief bathing suit worn by men.

The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

In the second place.

(transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

(transitive) To decrease the value or price of; to make cheaper.

At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.

(slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

Causing devastation.

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

Ruined, ravaged.

To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.

(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

développement personnel

The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.

(ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

développer l'aspect social

(transitive) To instruct (somebody), usually subconsciously and mostly by example, in the etiquette of a society.

A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.

(transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]

devenir étique

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]

devenir plus profond

(intransitive) To become deeper

devenir virtreux

(intransitive) Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]

Not secured or protected by a lock.

(transitive) To unlock by undoing the bolts of.

The sudden outward flowing of a large amount of something.

(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

(sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.

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