2-Letter Words Starting with D

Overthrow; defeat.

""Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.""

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Agent

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Detention in port

Object and go mad about the Bank's cut in gold transactions

How one may object to fury, yet have to pay for it after some delay

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

One of a sort of leaves (wordplay)

Going on leave

Leaving for something new

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Plunder, old style.

Prey upon.

Rob and Pete dread being made to look silly

Inferable

Anatomy An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.

Seer acted badly to abuse sacred object

Defile, as something sacred

Harm a church

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

Adept seer (anagram)

Extremely dangerous (situation)

Crazy speed and more speed? Reckless!

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

DEUTERATE

Lessen the worth of

Lower the price of.

Lessen the worth of, as money

Lay waste to old Chester, say

What tornadoes do

Overwhelm, as with grief

""Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.""

Evil magic

Satanic activity

Magic roll I had shortly before heartless louse tucked into a brie

To render diabolical.

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

""DIALYSE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYZE""

The material subjected to dialysis.

Algae remains

""To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

A top back on board's possible to enlarge

One qualified to dive - look to partner

Perform for free (wordplay)

Fire (gun); sack (worker)

Fire - or let off (wordplay)

Release from attachment

Put in neutral

Separate, release, detach

Remove from a socket (wordplay)

Developing Aldi: Tesco put out

Put out of place.

Take defence apart with his help!

Put down a Yankees legend (wordplay)

Take to pieces

Grasp idea incorrectly and belittle it

Slight gasp aired in uproar

Revile girl's father and show anger

Despair at match being unequal

Various ideas, part worked out

Contrasting, random pairs in age

Offend or annoy

Complaint about parking left anger

Rub the wrong way.

As pride is a condemnation

Censure, criticism

To censure.

Waste (money/energy)

Exhaust insult I spread

Be dispelled/dispersed

""Inattentive or preoccupied, especially because of anxiety: "When she did not occupy her accustomed chair at the seminar, Freud felt uneasy and distrait" (Times Literary Supplement).""

Capable of being divided; divisible.

Severinsen's degree (wordplay)

Degree given to redcoat - for dancing!

PhD or D.Phil

Speak or write arrogantly

Power (over others)

Influence (over others)

I condemn a terrible authority

It identifies an exec's office

Entrance appurtenance.

Item on which an office worker's name is printed

Uncertain

C.S.A. sympathizer in the North

A+ for a successful Hail Mary (wordplay)

Feather quality (wordplay)

Reduce in importance

; adj. In a direction away from the launch site and along the flight line of a missile test range: landed a thousand miles downrange; the downrange target area.

On the cheap end

Not luxurious

Actor's area

Toward the audience

Nearest the audience

Toward a southern border

Toward the southern border

Like New York City, for example

DRAFT to conscript for military service

It's attached to a sink (2 words)

Attachment to a sink.

The way to waste

Stage star with media frenzy

Shed tears amid function - ham it up

Media star adapted to stage

Adapt for the stage

Present in a vivid, striking way

Express emotionally

DRAPE to arrange in graceful folds

""A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.drawshave, and drawing shave.""

""A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.""

See Drawing knife. Drawing knife.

Vague or fanciful

Visionary daughter's papers get prize

Lie marked out as unrealistic

Era of creation, in Australian myth

The Creation, to indigenous Australians

Aboriginals' golden age

Like oil-rich land

Like the water supply, hopefully

Pronunciation of 'oenophilist' leaving something to be desired

Link bread pudding with something to wash it down that's just about OK

Like paved roads

Wild bear lived within range of single shot

The smallest quantity of liquid heavy enough to fall in a spherical mass. See Table at measurement .

Open to question

Bridge match (wordplay)

Copy - teacup lid (anagram)

Double up refashioning citadel walls

Resembling Happy.

Adjective meaning resembling

Render harmless, as a bomb

Make very weak

Undermine one fired up during discussion

Reduce power of one bet, detail being incorrect

Head off (wordplay)

Make some heads roll (wordplay)

Make Bill sick (wordplay)

Track-and-field competitor in 10 events

Sportsman swinging the lead etc

Rafer Johnson (1934-2020) won an Olympic gold medal as one

Fitted to deceive; deceitful.

Slow down, in other words

Check one's speed

Move more slowly

""To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

Capable of being declared.

""Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech. as, declinable parts of speech.""

Not functional, perhaps

Fancy creative do switched

I overacted terribly with embellishments

A defeat; an overthrow.

""Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title. as, a defeasible title.""

Capable of being defended; defensible.

""-fers , -ferring , -ferred (tr) to delay or cause to be delayed until a future time; postpone [from Old French differer to be different, postpone; see differ ]""

Burn or river slow rodent's entered

Burn suddenly, usually with flames and a crackling noise

FORMABLE able to be formed

DEFRAY to pay or settle

Rake produces neater edge perhaps

Become worse than before

In moral decline

Able to break down

Divest of individuality

LAMINATE to compress into a thin plate

Charming Democrat groomed for office

Tasteful Democrat could be voted in

Causing pleasure

Think to entrap (wordplay)

Cautious return to captivity (wordplay)

Think positively intentional

""LOCALIZE to confine or limit to a certain place, also LOCALISE""

That may be demanded or claimed.

MODULATE to {regulate=v}

Throw into mental disarray

Bring down spiritually

Throw into confusion

Mentioned a new label

When beaten, mentioned a name

Emendation (wordplay)

Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

Trustworthy, reliable

Trusty writer, expert, put in sign on proof

Ben pleaded to be free, being trustworthy

Variant of dependence .

DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

Repeal bold move? Scandalous!

Lamentable, causing great regret

Inexcusable record in Donegal or fit for purpose (wordplay)

DEPLOY to position troops for battle

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

Force migration from an area

Clear of inhabitants

Get the people out of crumbling Aleppo with duet in a mess

Brooklyn laptop (wordplay)

Cook created pie to scoff at (wordplay)

Mark down pie created wrongly

Lessen in value.

Uproot

Remove restrictions from

Remove controls from

Remove restrictions to put off endlessly holding a gun up

Imitative of the work of another

Possibly a future spin-off

Using other sources

""To alter the chemical composition [of a compound] by a chemical reaction which changes some part of the molecule, leaving most of the molecule unchanged; to prepare a derivative{6} from.""

Belittling.

Process sea water, brewing ale instead

Make drinkable, in a way

Sweeten recalcitrant ladies with neat scotch (wordplay)

Same as desalinate.desalinate.

Shield able to provide little cover

Hides label awkwardly in insubstantial garment

Naughty Sal I beheld in a state of undress

Regard as essential.

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Worthy of keen disapprobation.

Adjective for Bill Sikes

Wretched paid 'celebs' going wild

Scale, as fish.

That can be detached.

Let cadet be - trouble can be worked out by the officer

""-ters , -terring , -terred (tr) to discourage (from acting) or prevent (from occurring), usually by instilling fear, doubt, or anxiety [from Latin dēterrēre, from de- + terrēre to frighten]""

Not quite prevent firm being loathsome

No-good

Abhorrent

DETONATE to cause to explode

Remove poison from

Tending to detractor draw.

To deprive of life or vitality.

To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.

English word

""DIALYZE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYSE""

English word

Salt that is typically red or orange; admit ochre (anagram)

""To record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

Tatty plaid I see in waste

Ruin unusual plaid Ida Lawrence made

Cause to fall into ruin

Dabbler in fine arts.

One who dabbles superficially

Lover of the fine arts.

DIMETHOATE

Cocktail dress reportedly includes matching glasses

China.

English word

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Poor dear gran is upset

Make a mess of

Make untidy

Stripped of flesh.

""(d s chärj , d s-chärj ) The act of removing a load or burden.""

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Sloppily dressed

Dish liable to be made without proper dressing

Good-looking girl fit to seduce the Italian with scanty clothing

LIKABLE able to be liked

Such income not permanent (wordplay)

Liquid to be thrown away after use

Designed to throw away after use

""Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.""

Discourse at length

Discourse formally

Separate, disconnect

In seconds a dreadful lack of harmony

Lack of harmony

Clashing quality of musical notes

""Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. as, dissuasive advice.""

Moonshiner's product.

Said little about concentrated essence

Something produced by condensing vapour

A word with two syllables.

Stretch/spread apart

Governing; ruling; imperious.

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

An adjustable spanner (wordplay)

Uplifting sight for ships (wordplay)

Card game for artists (wordplay)

Potentially shaky power structure

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Shown

Low neckline on a dress

More of the quip

Low-cut neckline

""To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

""To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. as, to decrepitate salt.""

""To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

Capable of being deflected.

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

""Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.""

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

Render a credit card useless, e.g

Render a credit card useless, for example

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.""

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

DENTICULATE

That can be counted.

Turn biomass to fuel, for example

O gee! Next day possibly the gas is to be extracted

To make poor; to impoverish.

That can be depreciated in value: depreciable assets.

Inflected form of SACRALIZE Inflected form of SACRAL a vertebra or nerve near the sacrum

That can be described; capable of description.

Abolish racial separation in (a society)

Bus students, for example

Make racially diverse

To direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.

Drying; tending to dry.