2-Letter Words Starting with D

Clear the air (wordplay)

Clear a windshield perhaps

Clear (a windshield)

Make less dangerous, as a snake

Make harmless, as a snake

Render harmless, in a way

{foolery=n}

Rebel's activity

In the teeth of

Challenging

Lifting a lid

Scrawling graffiti on, for example

Scrawling graffiti on, e.g

Slandering and libeling

Calumniating

Corruption of purity

Desecrating

Job for Webster

Lexicographer's job

Critically important

Calming down, as a tense situation

Bomb-squad job

Rendering harmless; in another sense, this puzzle's theme

Defuze

Deify

Merit badge since 1965

Choosing for the military

Outlining key outdoor activity

Aimlessly wandering from place to place

Floating with the current

Floating about aimlessly

Causing to look small

Towering over

Like some rock music

Intolerably loud

Clamorous sound persistently enveloping each swamp

Defang

Defat

Fed up with being fed with beating

Fed up with winning by wining and dining

Winning victory over

Defect

Fed up at last without prosecuting

So fed up with finishing for the accused

Fed up at last with no attack

Defense

Fed up with sin - so offputting!

With respect, to get so fed-up is wrong

Fed up with putting off being sinful

Letting the air out

Fed up with the classics? Gee, that'll puncture you!

Ridding of pests, in a way

Defoam

Defog

Deforce

Disfiguring

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Removing financial support from

Differ

What the rear axle is not concentrating on doing (wordplay)

Damnify

Dandify

Last step before showering (wordplay)

Questioning after mission

Questioning after a mission

Default

Defecate

Defilade

Turning away and leaving the country around fifty

FOCUSING focus

Defraud

Severe punishment for a priest

Depriving of priestly status

Leaving on the counter, perhaps

What Brooklyn bakeries apply (wordplay)

Thawing out

Densify

Dignify

Dulcify

Deadlift

""DEFALCATE To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.""

Deflower

Defocus

Action that makes leaves leave

Old author and pop star about right way to ruin the earth

Denazify

Desulfur

Detoxify

Diffract

Disfavor

Spoiling the appearance of

Disfrock

Engaging in aerial combat

Dumfound

Deacidify

Decalcify

Decertify

FEMINIZING feminize

DEFINITIZE

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Demystify

Denitrify

Devitrify

""DIFFERENCE The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty? as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?""

Disaffect

Disaffirm

Discomfit

Disinfect

Disinfest

I had turned up poet's work showing more variety

Downshift

Dumbfound

Declassify

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

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

Dehumidify

Inflected form of SULFURIZING Inflected form of SULFURIZE

Discomfort

Disconfirm

Disfurnish

Disqualify

Not fulfilling

DEFENESTRATE to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

FIBRILLATING fibrillate

""Inflected form of AFFILIATING Inflected form of AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

Inflected form of FRANCHISING Inflected form of FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Differentiate