6-Letter Verbs Starting With D

Here's the list of all the 429 6-Letter Verbs Starting With D in the English Language.

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design
1. make or work out a plan for; devise
2. plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
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direct
1. command with authority
2. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
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double
1. increase twofold
2. hit a two-base hit
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detail
1. provide details for
2. assign to a specific task
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demand
1. request urgently and forcefully
2. require as useful, just, or proper
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doctor
1. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
2. give medical treatment to
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define
1. determine the essential quality of
2. give a definition for the meaning of a word
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damage
1. inflict damage upon
2. suffer or be susceptible to damage
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delete
1. remove or make invisible
2. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
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debate
1. argue with one another
2. think about carefully; weigh
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decide
1. reach, make, or come to a decision about something
2. bring to an end; settle conclusively
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desire
1. feel or have a desire for; want strongly
2. expect and wish
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driven
1. operate or control a vehicle
2. travel or be transported in a vehicle
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donate
1. give to a charity or good cause
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desert
1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
2. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
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digest
1. convert food into absorbable substances
2. arrange and integrate in the mind
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denied
1. declare untrue; contradict
2. refuse to accept or believe
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depend
1. be contingent upon (something that is elided)
2. have faith or confidence in
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differ
1. be different
2. be of different opinions
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divine
1. perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
2. search by divining, as if with a rod
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detect
1. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
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defend
1. argue or speak in defense of
2. be on the defensive; act against an attack
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defeat
1. win a victory over
2. thwart the passage of
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divide
1. separate into parts or portions
2. perform a division
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depart
1. move away from a place into another direction
2. be at variance with; be out of line with
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defect
1. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
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duplex
1. change into a duplex
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deploy
1. to distribute systematically or strategically
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docket
1. place on the docket for legal action
2. make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
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denote
1. be a sign or indication of
2. have as a meaning
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decree
1. issue a decree
2. decide with authority
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derive
1. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
2. obtain
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dubbed
1. give a nickname to
2. provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
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dotted
1. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
2. distribute loosely
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devote
1. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
2. dedicate
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demise
1. transfer by a lease or by a will
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decode
1. convert code into ordinary language
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depict
1. show in, or as in, a picture
2. give a description of
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devise
1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
2. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
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deduct
1. make a subtraction
2. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
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dipped
1. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
2. dip into a liquid while eating
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drudge
1. work hard
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divert
1. turn aside; turn away from
2. send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
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dazzle
1. to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
2. amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill
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dangle
1. hang loosely
2. cause to dangle or hang freely
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dilute
1. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
2. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
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deepen
1. make more intense, stronger, or more marked
2. become more intense
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doodle
1. make a doodle; draw aimlessly
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detour
1. travel via a detour
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dismay
1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
2. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
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deduce
1. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
2. conclude by reasoning; in logic
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detach
1. cause to become detached or separated; take off
2. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment
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desist
1. choose not to consume
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disarm
1. remove offensive capability from
2. make less hostile; win over
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dredge
1. cover before cooking
2. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
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douche
1. direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning
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detain
1. deprive of freedom; take into confinement
2. stop or halt
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dispel
1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
2. to cause to separate and go in different directions
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dreamt
1. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
2. experience while sleeping
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deluge
1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
2. charge someone with too many tasks
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drivel
1. let saliva drivel from the mouth
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devour
1. to consume
2. enjoy avidly
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defray
1. bear the expenses of
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defied
1. resist or confront with resistance
2. elude, especially in a baffling way
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dogged
1. go after with the intent to catch
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derail
1. cause to run off the tracks
2. run off or leave the rails
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dampen
1. suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
2. make moist
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darken
1. become dark or darker
2. tarnish or stain
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deport
1. behave in a certain manner
2. hand over to the authorities of another country
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divest
1. take away possessions from someone
2. deprive of status or authority
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defuse
1. remove the triggering device from
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dimmed
1. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
2. become dim or lusterless
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donned
1. put clothing on one's body
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dimple
1. mark with, or as if with, dimples
2. produce dimples while smiling
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drench
1. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
2. force to drink
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detest
1. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
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diddle
1. deprive of by deceit
2. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
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debunk
1. expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
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defame
1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
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dither
1. act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
2. make a fuss; be agitated
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dibble
1. plant with a wooden hand tool
2. make a hole with a wooden hand tool
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dicker
1. negotiate the terms of an exchange
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deform
1. make formless
2. twist and press out of shape
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defile
1. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
2. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
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dabble
1. dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
2. play in or as if in water, as of small children
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dilate
1. become wider
2. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
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deface
1. mar or spoil the appearance of
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demean
1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
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depose
1. force to leave (an office)
2. make a deposition; declare under oath
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6-Letter Verbs Starting With D