2-Letter Words Starting with D

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Ruin, wreckage

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Ruin

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

DEUTERATE

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

The interval of a fourth.

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

RELATION an association between people or things

Oppressed, being under 11 (wordplay)

Oppressed, badly treated

Oppressed by those in power

Drawers needed for board-games

Those on the board who make plans

Process of stopping something working

""The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.""

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

Decongest

Burning away of a substance

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

The act or process of removing ions.

Formation and separation of lamin\'91 or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

Extraction of a signal from its carrier

""DEMONIZE to make a demon of, also DEMONISE""

DENATURE to deprive of natural qualities

One, for one

He's mixed up in a religious group

Faith in money

Strong public criticism

Public condemnation of awful auctioned inn

What the whistleblower is capable of is informing

Reduction in inhabitants

Loss of inhabitants

It never goes up in financial crash

Gradual loss of value

Loss in value

""DEPUTIZE to act as a deputy, also DEPUTISE""

Act of uprooting

I worried about body of people being uprooted

Removal of restrictions

Restrictions being removed? Lie around and get sozzled

Derepress

""A surgical procedure designed to remove skin imperfections, such as scars, by abrading the surface of the skin with fine sandpaper or wire brushes.""

Deal is arranged with people for main treatment (wordplay)

Purification process that could be organised by Ionian Sea Ltd (wordplay)

Newly nationalised water company may carry this out

Longing for something

Converted into a desired, longed-for object

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

""The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.""

It makes a fool disappear

Sweet to make love with one from the canteen

It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table

TOXICATION Poisoning.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

English word

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. dien. See Thalamencephalon.

""DIMERIZE to make into a dimer, also DIMERISE""

Alienation; ill-will

Alienation

Medical safeguard against underworld disease

Exemption (from a rule)

Exemption (from the usual requirements)

Exemption (from usual requirement)

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

The cardinal number equal to 10 39 .

CARBONATION

""CEREBRATION Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

Process of decay

Collapse of French work of art

Putrefaction

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

""The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.""

""The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.""

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

Asteroid often crashed clearing a lot of trees

Change of trees into a wasteland, ultimately (wordplay)

Author filing first of reports on rank destruction of natural resources

""GRANULATION The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar. as, the granulation of powder and sugar.""

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

DEMYELINATE

An increase in the density of something.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

""The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.""

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

""REALIZATION The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.""

The ending of racial separation

Process of worsening

Decline to put off one formal speech

A progressive worsening

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

DIESELIZE DIESEL to continue running after ignition is turned off

English word

Removal of electricity supply

Act of breaking a link

Complete break - relative can go to the devil!

What the devil has got hold of the inspector with all this eviction (wordplay)

Act of spreading widely

Scattering process

Spreading, distribution

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Concerted action mounted by the papers

Written papers

If it's wild, you might get to this by train round the top to begin with

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

CONSECRATION The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Method of critical analysis of literary texts

Label that released hits by M-People, Kylie Minogue etc.

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

Act of ejecting someone through a window

Act of throwing out of a window

Ejection from a window

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

NAZIFICATION

""PIGMENTATION A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. as, pigmentation of the liver.""

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

The removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

Process of removing poisons

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

The act of disembarking.

INFESTATION The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

Process of breaking up

Breaking up rioting detains reprobate

Sense of confusion

""ACIDIFICATION The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.""

The removal of calcareous matter.

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CASUALIZATION

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Act of deconcentrating.

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

GLAMORIZATION

""The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.""

Magazine diet not working, an unattractive process (wordplay)

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

""MYSTIFICATION The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.""

""The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.""

SACRALIZATION

Loss of feeling

Dust-bowl action

SEXUALIZATION

STABILIZATION

DESULFURIZE SULFURIZE SULFUR a non metallic element

The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Process of downgrading secret documents