2-Letter Words Starting with D

I'm done! Sin horrendous in magnitude!

Time, for one

Length or breadth, say

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

Supply bride's undies, 50% off or free

Rubens did work for free

Underbids in order to offload

Shown to be false.

Demonstrated to be false

Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistake

""SEISIN legal possession of land, also SEIZIN""

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.

Little girl's type of entertainment

Bypass papers reviewed for adaptation

Category of many movies.

Twelve-sided figure

Good movement with dance figure

12-sided figure

Bridge suit holding

Two cards of a suit in a hand

Blonde out (anagram) - two cards

Very severe medic with a look over Scot

Very harsh like severe laws

Incan road (anagram) - extremely harsh

Bartender (wordplay)

One who draws up legal documents

Architect's aide

Some architecture firm workers

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

English word

AERATION exposure to the action of air

Solid figure with ten plane faces

Ten-faced solid

Solid figure having ten faces

15 across, with a loss of 10%

This took 1 across in execution

After such a loss last month, I am at one on the end

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Coordinate new colour scheme (wordplay)

Prize for painting (wordplay)

Bunting (in honour of a brave man?)

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Devotion (to a task)

Inscription in a book.

'Lowly, with a broken neck, / The - lays her cheek to mine' (Meredith)

Result of having falsely named one 'fat' and 'round'

Betrayal involving a waste disposal operation

Private act you might (might!) do in front of your partner

""A team member, as in hockey, who plays a defensive zone or position.""

DEFENCE protection

Goalie in ice hockey

Certain hockey player

One of six teammates

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

Do it fine in sporty Focus

One of 144 here

The meaning of a word

Shield's purpose

Turning Labour leader in rebellion

Liberal in act of revolt turning away

Commission special Donegal tie

U. N. General Assembly group.

Convention group from a state

Licking lemon, idiot idiotic!

Ryan Adams' current album

Light Infantry in degrading defeat

Denial.

The marking off or separation of anything.

""The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.""

Removal of hair

Player's place?

Player's place (wordplay)

It's signed by a witness

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

A representative body

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

""Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.""

Belittling of a good interchange

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

Are you, by the sound of it, in? (Poor you!)

SORPTION the process or sorbing

No-one thanks important backer? Blast!

School at first in academic outburst

Loud report.

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

Violent duo out to get a transfer of power

In county one has nasty lout leading delegation

Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority

English word

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

""The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. as, the dismission of the grand jury.""

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Explosion.

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Some analytical piecework (wordplay)

Senior policeman opening special branch enquiry

Cutting up middle slice of dessert, in manner of speaking

I send SOS in trouble and strife

Disagreement leading to discord

Discord, disagreement

DISSENT to {disagree=v}

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

Swelling

""The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. as, the distention of the lungs.""

Wide-angle lens concern

Travesty of a sort

A twisting out of shape

""A pale yellow, highly toxic systemic insecticide, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used for some vegetables and flowers.""

What could get one avoiding a subject ultimately (wordplay)

Occult art

Get a share for the Sioux by telling the future

Prediction of small return on investment by state

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Act of doubting; doubt.

DEAMINATE

Disembarkation.

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Making a god of

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

Boundary

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Detraction; depreciation.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Plundering.

Despoilment

Severe lack of essentials

Neglect before line in speech

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

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.""

""The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.""

One of the Dinosauria.

FUNCTION to perform or act

Disappointing loss of an ideal

Present magic act, on the street

""The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.as, the disjunction of soul and body.""

Where we be (wordplay)

Disturbance of the normal position

Shoulder injury

Status of an insult comic (wordplay)

Downsizing result (wordplay)

Way in which something is placed

""The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.""

RELATION an association between people or things

Overindulgent living

Present answer, on the street

Son thus stops toning down debauchery

Dissipation; death

Difference isn't changing, in manner of speaking

Prestige gained by outstanding exam candidates

Celebrity makes speech about last of his money

It stops one concentrating

Agitated mental state

Extreme agitation

Oppressed, being under 11 (wordplay)

Oppressed, badly treated

Oppressed by those in power

""An antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces peuceticus, used as an anticancer drug.""

One skilled at drawing

Technical plan maker

Chap who makes plans as potential king

Drawers needed for board-games

Those on the board who make plans

Copy of linocut - paid out

Copy of linocut – paid out

Doubling up

Abnormal operation

English word

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.

""DIGITIZE to put into digital form, also DIGITISE""

In expansion getting badly paid leads to ruin

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

Alienation; ill-will

Alienation

A disavowing or disowning.

Medical safeguard against underworld disease

A reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure.

Exemption (from a rule)

Exemption (from the usual requirements)

Exemption (from usual requirement)

""A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.""

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Action of separating

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

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 .

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to dress like or cause to resemble a dandy dandification   n""

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.