De-

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. ·cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, ·etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, ·etc.

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