6-Letter Verbs Starting With DE

Here's the list of all the 175 6-Letter Verbs Starting With DE 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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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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define
1. determine the essential quality of
2. give a definition for the meaning of a word
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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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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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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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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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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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deploy
1. to distribute systematically or strategically
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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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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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deepen
1. make more intense, stronger, or more marked
2. become more intense
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detour
1. travel via a detour
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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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detain
1. deprive of freedom; take into confinement
2. stop or halt
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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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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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derail
1. cause to run off the tracks
2. run off or leave the rails
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deport
1. behave in a certain manner
2. hand over to the authorities of another country
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defuse
1. remove the triggering device from
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detest
1. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
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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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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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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 DE