2-Letter Words Starting with D

Causing deflection.

Rake produces neater edge perhaps

Become worse than before

In moral decline

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

MODULATE to {regulate=v}

""To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.""

Mentioned a new label

When beaten, mentioned a name

Emendation (wordplay)

Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

Preparation fighting cavities

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

Toothpaste

DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

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)

Regard as essential.

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

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]""

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

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.

English word

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

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Capable of being assimilated

Stop claiming rotten giblets okay to eat

Able to be eaten

""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

Tom, Dick or Harry (wordplay)

Tom, Dick or Harry for example

Four in cast mutinied, like Piglet

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

English word

Stripped of flesh.

Deprive of a right

Upset and tired with lungs bursting

Put in bad humor

Cause displeasure when drugs let in another way

""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.""

Tepid virus, strangely unsettling

Tending to break up.

Unruly

Discourse at length

Discourse formally

Separate, disconnect

Moonshiner's product.

Said little about concentrated essence

Something produced by condensing vapour

Present praise, on the street

Pass out with Garda's salute

Apparently remove praise from spread

Stretch/spread apart

DOLOMITE a mineral

Governing; ruling; imperious.

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

Potentially shaky power structure

To deprive of carbonic acid.

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.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

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

Capable of being deflected.

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

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

Very pleasing; delightful.

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

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

Turn biomass to fuel, for example

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

To make poor; to impoverish.

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Abolish racial separation in (a society)

Bus students, for example

Make racially diverse

To rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize.sensitize.

Drying; tending to dry.

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

Inflected form of STABILIZE Inflected form of STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

Causing ruin

Very damaging

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

DETONATE to cause to explode

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

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

DEVASTATE To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

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

Colour slide

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

English word

Walking on the toes; distinguished from plantigrade. plantigrade.

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of dipeptides into their constituent amino acids.

DIPHOSPHATE

People on board created riot at sea

Section of government department

Board members show way to make a speech

Stop making (an item)

Stop doing or making

Put an end to

Night spot, modern style.

Where a go-go goes.

Night club that plays records.

Remove a snarl

Straighten out daughter I roused by point of view

Unravel

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

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

Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.

Feeling of anxiety

Feeling of unease

Uneasiness

Broadcast media is sent wild

Broadcast inside team's ground

Spread widely

To render dissimilar.

Disguise, as one's feelings

Conceal truth by false pretences

Disguise one's feelings

Tending to dissipate.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

Like unique voice

Individually characteristic

Characteristic

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

Vaults rope to grab feline that's tame

Shakespeare's tamed shrew

Tame Scottie made to perform

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

""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.""

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Decongest

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

""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.""

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.

Conferring a denomination or name.

Same as Denunciatory. Denunciatory.

Inflected form of POLITICIZE Inflected form of POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

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

""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

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

English word

Plural of differentia .

A molecule that consists of a combination of two nucleotides.

""To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

Dad navigates criminal stumbling block

Put in an unfavourable position

Unfavourable circumstance

End an attachment to an organisation

Separate into component parts

Ensure there is no mistake about meaning - misguide a bat (anagram)

Cut off from detective's sidekick

Sever ties, as with a group

Disconnect, separate

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Record terribly neat solo, getting down!

Merges into a big company

Sad; beyond comfort

""Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.""

Use taste and judgment (or prejudice)

Understand the difference (between)

Perceive a difference (between)

Vince inside Tory leader could be off-putting

Damper

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

Tending or leading to dissociation.

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.""

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Adjective meaning resembling

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

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

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

Remove the bad meat contained in a stew

Rid of a dangerous substance

Remove pollution from

""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

""To remove the mythical elements from; -- of writings, such as the Bible.""

To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

Adjective meaning resembling

Progressively worsening

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

A corticosteroid drug used to treat allergies or inflammation.

Distinguish (between)

Show where things are not the same

Tell apart

Uncouple damaged air ducts and isolate, so not functional

Tending to bring harm to a reputation

Shameful

INTOXICATE Intoxicated.

... changing pants, idea is so cool

Not affected by personal feelings

Objective is emotion filling court

A point of difference

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.""

English word

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.""

""A member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.""

AGGREGATIVE Taken together; collective.

Cause confusion in performing acid blues to mob

Bale out distraught after dance with doctor, upset

Rebuilding a bomb site could be confusing