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a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound). Compare di- 2 , dis- 1 .
Origin:
ME < L dē-, prefixal use of dē (prep.) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < F < L dē- or dis- dis- 1
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  1. Do or make the opposite of; reverse: decriminalize.

  2. Remove or remove from: delouse; deoxygenate.

  3. Out of: deplane; defenestration.

  4. Reduce; degrade: declass.

  5. Derived from: deverbative.


[Middle English de-, from Old French de- (from Latin dē-, from, off, apart, away, down, out, completely, from dē; see de- in Indo-European roots) or from Old French des-, out, off, apart, away, completely (from Latin dis-, dis-, and Latin dē-).]
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de- pref.

  1. Do or make the opposite of; reverse: decomposition.

  2. Remove or remove from: deoxygenation.

  3. Reduce; degrade: decholesterolization.

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