Tag: D & E

de-(word root) not, downExamples of words with the root de-: decompress, descentAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary EmbreeDEabbr.1. Football defensive end2. DelawareAmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.de or De; d’ or D’of; from: occurring as part of some personal names and originally indicating place of origin: Simon de Montfort; D’Arcy; de la Mare. [from Latin d?; see de-]de the internet domain name for (Computer Science) Germany DE abbreviation for 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly in Britain) Department of Employment 2. (Placename) Delaware Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014de- , a prefix, occurring orig. in loanwords from Latin, used to form verbs that denote motion or conveyance down from, away, or off (deflect; descend); reversal or undoing of the effects of an action (deflate); extraction or removal of a thing (decaffeinate); thoroughness or completeness of an action (despoil). [Middle English

D & Eabbr. dilation and evacuationAmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.