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De-escalate

Definition: De-escalate

De-escalate

Verb

1. Reduce the level or intensity of; "de-escalate a crisis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: De-escalate

Synonyms: step down (v), weaken (v). (additional references)
Antonym: escalate (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: De-escalate

Language Translations for "de-escalate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

deeskalieren. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

デスカレート . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

e-escalateday

   

Russian 

  

приуменьшить. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avtrappa. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), hızını düşürmek, azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), şiddetini azaltmak (fade out), önemini yavaş yavaş kaybetmek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: De-escalate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deescalate.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-e-l-s-t"

-1 letter: escalated.

-2 letters: caseated, dealates, deselect, escalade, escalate, selected, teaseled.

-3 letters: acetals, alcades, caseate, castled, celesta, celeste, cleated, dealate, decease, delates, deletes, elected, lactase, scalade, sleeted, steeled.

-4 letters: acetal, alated, alates, alcade, cadets, calesa, castle, ceased, clades, cleats, decals, delate, delete, deltas, desalt, eclats, elated, elates, eldest, elects, lasted, leased, salted, scaled, sealed, seated, secede, sedate, seeled, select, slated, staled, stelae, talced, teased, teasel.

-5 letters: aceta, acted, aedes, alate, alecs, atlas, cades, cadet, cased, caste, cates, cease, cedes, celts, cesta, cetes, clade, clads, clast, cleat, daces, dales, dates, deals, dealt, decal, deets, deles, delta, delts, eased, easel, eclat, elate, elect, laced, laces, lades, lased, lated, leads, lease, least, leets, salad, sated, scald, scale, setae, setal, slate, sleet, stade, stale, stead, steal, steed, steel, stela, stele, taces, taels, talas, talcs, tales, teals, tease, teels, telae, teles, tesla, tsade.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-e-l-s-t"
 

+1 letter: deescalated, deescalates, reescalated.

 

+3 letters: acetaldehydes.

 

+5 letters: adrenalectomies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: De-escalate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 2D 65 73 63 61 6C 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 00101101 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#45 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 002D 0065 0073 0063 0061 006C 0061 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871157185696778678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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