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English words starting with detr

Meanings of Detract:

verb

Diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement).

Usage examples:

These quibbles in no way detract from her achievement
phrasal verb

To make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration

Usage examples:

These small faults, however, do not detract from the overall quality of the book.

Meanings of Detract-from:

phrasal verb

To make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration

Usage examples:

These small faults, however, do not detract from the overall quality of the book.

Meanings of Detracted:

verb

Diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement).

Usage examples:

These quibbles in no way detract from her achievement
phrasal verb

To make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration

Usage examples:

These small faults, however, do not detract from the overall quality of the book.

Meanings of Detracting:

verb

Diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement).

Usage examples:

These quibbles in no way detract from her achievement
phrasal verb

To make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration

Usage examples:

These small faults, however, do not detract from the overall quality of the book.

Meanings of Detractor:

noun

A person who disparages someone or something.

Usage examples:

The island, say its detractors, has been devoured by development

Meanings of Detractors:

noun

A person who disparages someone or something.

Usage examples:

The island, say its detractors, has been devoured by development

Meanings of Detracts:

verb

Diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement).

Usage examples:

These quibbles in no way detract from her achievement
phrasal verb

To make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration

Usage examples:

These small faults, however, do not detract from the overall quality of the book.

Meanings of Detrain:

verb

Leave or cause to leave a train.

Usage examples:

The train from loughborough will stop at quorn for passengers to detrain

Meanings of Detrained:

verb

Leave or cause to leave a train.

Usage examples:

The train from loughborough will stop at quorn for passengers to detrain

Meanings of Detraining:

verb

Leave or cause to leave a train.

Usage examples:

The train from loughborough will stop at quorn for passengers to detrain

Meanings of Detrains:

verb

Leave or cause to leave a train.

Usage examples:

The train from loughborough will stop at quorn for passengers to detrain

Meanings of Detribalize:

verb

Remove (someone) from a traditional tribal social structure.

Usage examples:

These policies attempted to detribalize native people by extricating them from their land base

Meanings of Detribalized:

verb

Remove (someone) from a traditional tribal social structure.

Usage examples:

These policies attempted to detribalize native people by extricating them from their land base

Meanings of Detribalizing:

verb

Remove (someone) from a traditional tribal social structure.

Usage examples:

These policies attempted to detribalize native people by extricating them from their land base

Meanings of Detriment:

noun

The state of being harmed or damaged.

Usage examples:

He is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life

Meanings of Detrimental:

adjective

Tending to cause harm.

Usage examples:

Recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people

Meanings of Detriments:

noun

The state of being harmed or damaged.

Usage examples:

He is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life

Meanings of Detrition:

noun

The action of wearing something away by friction.

Usage examples:

Accurate reproduction of shadow masks is achieved with minimized detrition of the tooling.

Meanings of Detritus:

noun

Waste or debris of any kind.

Usage examples:

The streets were foul with detritus

Meanings of Detroit:

proper noun

A major industrial city and great lakes shipping centre in south-eastern michigan; population 912,062 (est. 2008). it is the centre of the us automobile industry, containing the headquarters of ford, chrysler, and general motors. in the 1960s, it was also an important centre for rock and soul music.

noun

The largest city in the northern us state of michigan, near the border with canada, and the centre of the us car industry

Usage examples:

It has become something detroit can't ignore., it's motor show time in detroit.

Meanings of Detroiter:

noun

Someone from the us city of detroit

Usage examples:

It's so nice to meet another detroiter!, the restaurant was popular among young detroiters.

Meanings of Detrusor:

noun

A muscle which forms a layer of the wall of the bladder.

Usage examples:

During normal voiding the detrusor muscle contracts and the muscles of the urethral sphincter and p…

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