v
(possibly nonstandard) Alternative spelling of affranchise [(transitive) To free from obligation, servitude or service.]
v
(transitive) To cause to become asocial; to disconnect (someone or something) from society or societal norms.
v
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
v
(transitive) To remove the energy from (a circuit or a system).
v
Alternative spelling of deoccupy [To remove an occupation from (a place).]
v
(transitive) To remove the anonymity from; to make personally identifying.
v
(transitive) To deprive of bitumen.
v
(transitive) To remove the brain from.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To eliminate casual labour from.
v
(transitive) To free or remove from categories; to regard individually.
v
To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
v
(transitive) To remove from a class.
adj
Alternative form of déclassé [Degraded from one's social class.]
v
(transitive) To reject as a commodity; to promote to a status above that of a commodity.
v
(transitive) To remove from a constitution.
v
(transitive, archaic) To make less crass or coarse.
v
(law enforcement) To remove the criminal status of a reported crime, typically due to insufficient evidence or to artificially reduce crime statistics
v
(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
v
(rare, transitive) To remove from the cross of crucifixion.
v
(transitive) To remove facts from; to make no longer factual.
v
(transitive) To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.
v
(transitive) To make no longer fertile.
v
(intransitive) to lose gemination
n
An act of dehumanization.
v
To remove personal identifying information from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify).
v
(transitive) To strip of individuality.
v
(psychology) to view as a group rather than as an individual; to remove societal norms that shape individual behavior; to remove or reduce individually identifying information
n
The process of deinvesting.
v
(transitive) To free from obscure technical language.
v
To broaden the scope of something (to make it more global).
v
(transitive) To make something nonmagnetic by removing its magnetic properties.
n
The breaking of a mass into separate units.
v
(transitive) To cause something to disappear by making it immaterial.
v
(transitive) To undo the mechanization of; to remove mechanical technology or aspects from.
v
(science fiction, transitive) To disassemble the molecular structure of.
n
The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
v
(transitive) To take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of (a thing or a person).
v
(transitive) To make no longer neutral; to remove neutrality from.
v
(transitive) To ban, remove or reduce the numbers of nuclear weapons in an area.
v
To remove the pagan qualities or elements of.
v
(transitive) To free from paupers.
v
(transitive) To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person.
v
(transitive) To present (something) as an impersonal object.
n
One who, or that which, depersonalizes.
v
To depersonalize; to remove the status of person.
v
To cause, or to undergo, depotentiation
v
To remove or reduce randomness.
v
To remove responsibility or responsibilities from; to make no longer responsible.
n
The process of adjusting to the non-school environment of everyday life after leaving the education system.
v
(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
v
(intransitive, of a geographical region) To become desert.
v
(transitive) To cause to cease to be politically socialist.
v
(transitive) To free from the sociopolitical influence of the Soviet Union.
v
(transitive, programming) To refactor spaghetti code.
v
(transitive) To make no longer specialized; to make generally applicable or accessible.
n
Alternative form of détente [(chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.]
v
(transitive, intransitive, mineralogy) To deform so that it is no longer twinned.
v
(transitive) To divest of the status of victim.
v
(computing, transitive) To make no longer virtual.
v
Alternative form of devitalize [To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.]
n
The removal of ambiguity.
v
(transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
n
The process of disannexing.
v
(physiology) To subject to disassimilation.
n
The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups.
n
The disruption of an enclave
v
(transitive) To divest of body; to make immaterial.
v
(transitive) To deprive of individuality.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To deprive of human character.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
v
(transitive) Synonym of depersonalize
v
(transitive) To divest of personality.
v
To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes.
v
(transitive) To strip of its reality.
n
The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
v
(transitive) To render unsocial.
n
The process of becoming or making distant.
n
The act or process of distantiating.
adj
Obsolete spelling of minorative [That diminishes or attenuates]
v
(transitive) To make into a nonentity; to remove all agency or relevance from.
v
(transitive) To make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.
n
The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
v
To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
v
(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
v
(transitive) To make no longer barbarian or barbaric.
v
(transitive) To divest of the traits of a boy.
v
(transitive) To strip of individuality.
v
To depalatalize; to make or become not palatal.
v
(transitive) To degrade from the character of a philosopher.
v
(transitive) To make unpoetic; to strip of its poetry or poetical aspect.
v
To make something unprofessional
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To remove or undo the racialization of.
v
(transitive) To reduce from a holy condition; to make profane.
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