2-Letter Words Starting with D

Think to entrap (wordplay)

Cautious return to captivity (wordplay)

Think positively intentional

Throw into mental disarray

Bring down spiritually

Throw into confusion

Preparation fighting cavities

Is it perhaps dingy if it's grainy for 1 across

Toothpaste

Repeal bold move? Scandalous!

Lamentable, causing great regret

Inexcusable record in Donegal or fit for purpose (wordplay)

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

Brooklyn laptop (wordplay)

Cook created pie to scoff at (wordplay)

Mark down pie created wrongly

Lessen in value.

Tending to flatten or lower

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.

Regard as essential.

""-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]""

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

Tending to detractor draw.

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

What's left of Diversity (wordplay)

End of quip

Disagreement if red fence collapsed

Tending to ramble

Fancy European ship in waterway almost straying from point

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Cocktail dress reportedly includes matching glasses

China.

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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.""

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Moving from subject to subject

Moving between subjects

Rambling

Upset and tired with lungs bursting

Put in bad humor

Cause displeasure when drugs let in another way

Tending to disperse.

Tepid virus, strangely unsettling

Tending to break up.

Unruly

Discourse at length

Discourse formally

Bad-mouth the waiters (wordplay)

Dress I ruined with evil and harmful act

Present employment, on the street

Present praise, on the street

Pass out with Garda's salute

Apparently remove praise from spread

Stretch/spread apart

Departure of a sort

A branching off

A moving apart

Line drawn top to bottom

Line made in writing

Various token words may be used by writer

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

""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.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

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

""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}

""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

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

That can be counted.

""A pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.""

To make poor; to impoverish.

That can be depreciated in value: depreciable assets.

(tr) (Psychology) to lower in spirits; make gloomy; deject

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

That can be described; capable of description.

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Abolish racial separation in (a society)

Bus students, for example

Make racially diverse

""A tricyclic antidepressant, C 18 H 22 N 2 , used in the treatment of psychological depression.""

Causing ruin

Very damaging

Inflected form of SULFURIZE Inflected form of SULFUR a non metallic element

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Fixed, as a number

A tender time (anagram) - fixed

Matter I need to get sorted, being decisive

To cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs.

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

""Formed from a verb, such as the noun worker derived from the verb work.""

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

Walking on the toes; distinguished from plantigrade. plantigrade.

An ester of two fatty acids and glycerol.

People on board created riot at sea

Section of government department

Board members show way to make a speech

Take the plastic from a Wall Street critter (wordplay)

DISCERN to {perceive=v}

""Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.""

Lack of harmony.

Conflict; lack of harmony

Inharmonious sound

""The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.""

""To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.""

To scatter; distribute over a wide area

Senior detectives excuse certain offence

Feeling of annoyance

Annoyance; disapproval

That can be shown to be false

Causing perplexity; distracting.

(Law) Law chiefly US a person entitled to share in the estate of an intestate

I ban crudest sort of interference

Free-for-all

Unruly outburst

""The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.""

Trying to impose beliefs

Inflexible in applying theory

Seeking to impose a view

Adjective meaning resembling

""To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.""

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

A cut in churchman's city rank gives cause to become secular

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

Inflected form of FIBRILLATE Inflected form of FIBRILLAE fibrilla

Welsh setback in case of wasting

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""Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. as, a deliberative body.""

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Able to be proved

Verified animal registered in beasty home

It's evident, devil gets last sinner in firm

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE Inflected form of NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

""Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.""

Inflected form of PRESSURIZE Inflected form of PRESSURE to apply force to

""A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.""

""Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. as, desiderative verbs.""

Able to be demolished

Easily destroyed

Is capable of being spoiled in the little pig's house of straw presumably

Capable of being decided upon

Capable of being fixed to put off a nimble arrangement

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""A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.""

Plural of differentia .

Double sugar / Travel freely? merger (nonverbal)

Separate into component parts

With beagles, a ride turned out nasty

Like some weather.

End of the quote

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

""Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

Use taste and judgment (or prejudice)

Understand the difference (between)

Perceive a difference (between)

""To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.""

""HARMONIZE To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.""

Base (for an American)

Fall apart - it isn't agreed (anagram)

Agreed it isn't about to fall apart!

Setter aiding anagram break up

Is East in time for puzzle (wordplay)

Cause to lose bearings

Cause (someone) to lose their bearings

Lacking public estimation

Not of decent character

Superb detail (anagram) -shady

The act of disserving; separation.

Immoderate.

""TRACTABLE Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. as, tractable children; a tractable learner.""

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

""Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.""

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

""Of or relating to a verb that takes or can take two objects, as begrudge in I don't begrudge you your good luck, or find in She found him a job.""

Capable of being dramatized.

""A glassy pink, green, violet, or blue aluminum borosilicate mineral, Al 8 BSi 3 O 19 OH, used in spark-plug ceramics and as imitation lapis lazuli.""

Early form of photograph

Early photograph

Photo of partygoer dancing with due energy

CARBOXYLASE

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

The abatement of a fever.

HYDROGENASE

""To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.""

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

Movie star tend to turn out effusive

Given to expressing one's feelings

Not hiding one's feelings

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Progressively worsening

Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

Distinguish (between)

Show where things are not the same

Tell apart

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

Exit (maybe into thin air)

Act of vanishing

Act of becoming invisible

Uncouple damaged air ducts and isolate, so not functional

""CHARGEABLE That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.""

Tending to bring harm to a reputation

Shameful

Capable of being discriminated.

Of or belonging to the genus Dryopithecus.

Deconstruct

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

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Possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.

Motion-sickness preventive

""Any of three isomeric compounds, C 6 H 4 (NO 2 ) 2 , made from a mixture of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and heated benzene and used in celluloid manufacture, in dyes, and in organic synthesis.""

""An enzyme, such as invertase or lactase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides to monosaccharides.""

AGGREGATIVE Taken together; collective.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.

Prevent one from making their mark in the election

(v.) to revoke the license of a business operator

Shires financed unfairly, put beyond the possibility of democratic participation

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Inner cities had become disorderly, getting cut off

INTEGRATIVE tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.

Not respectable; disreputable.

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

""Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. as, the distemperature of the air.""

""DIFFERENTIATE To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.""

""INDUSTRIALIZE To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.""

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction

""Inflected form of PHOSPHORYLATE Inflected form of PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

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DITHIOCARBAMATE

Out of scale with something else

Out of keeping

Out of scale