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Definition: Declassify |
DeclassifyVerb1. Lift the restriction on and make available again; "reclassify the documents". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military & Defense | To cancel the security classification of an item of classified matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: classify (v). (additional references) |
| "Declassify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Declassify" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
declassify | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "declassify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nxjerr nga lista e dokumenteve sekrete. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كشف يلغي السرية, أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up, walk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odtajnit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nedklassificere, frigive (release, to release, to unblock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | derubricering, derubriceren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقام اجتماعی کسی راازبین بردن , غیرمحرمانه کردن , تنزل رتبه دادن به . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déclassifier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | deklassieren (downgrade, outclass, to declass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποχαρακτηρίζω (to deafforest, to dereserve, to disafforest, to disreserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"סיר סו"יות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaminõsít (downgrade), titkosság alól felold, nyilvánosságra hoz (release, to descry, to make public, to noise abroad, to proclaim abroad), felold (disengage, dissolve, resolve, solve, to declassify, to justify, to loose, to raise, to resolve, to solubilize, to toll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riclassificare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill ass folliaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eclassifyday desclassificar (disqualify). (various references) рассекречивать (declassifying). (various references) skinuti oznaku poverjlivosti. (various references) hacer público (place, publicize). (various references) ta bort hemligstämpeln från, släppa fri (free). (various references) gizliliğini kaldırmak, açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil). (various references) розсекречувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "declassify": declassifying. (additional references) | |
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"Declassify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decrassify. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "declassify" (pronounced dikla"sufī') |
| 7 | -k l a" s u f ī' | classify, reclassify. |
| 5 | -a" s u f ī' | pacify. |
| 4 | -s u f ī' | calcify, crucify, detoxify, diversify, falsify, intensify, ossify, specify. |
| 3 | -u f ī' | acidify, amplify, beautify, certify, clarify, codify, decertify, deify, demystify, dignify, disqualify, edify, electrify, exemplify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, oversimplify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-l-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: classify, dayflies, dialyses, ecdysial. | |
-3 letters: aidless, classed, declass, dialyse, discase, ecdysis, falsies, fecials, fiscals, salsify. | |
-4 letters: acidly, afield, aisled, aisles, alcids, asdics, asides, califs, casefy, clades, classy, clayed, cyesis, daises, dassie, deafly, deasil, decafs, decals, decays, delays, easily, facies, facile, failed, falces, falsie, fasces, fecial, felids, fields, filses, fiscal, flayed, ideals, ladies, lassie, lyases, safely, saices, sailed, salify, sayids, scalds, scaled, scales, sidles, slayed, sliced, slices, slides, yields. | |
-5 letters: acids, acidy, acyls, aides, ailed, aisle, alcid, alecs, alefs, alifs, asdic, aside, assed, cades, cadis, cafes, caids, calfs, calif, cased, cases, cedis, ceils, cissy, clade, clads, class, clays, clefs, daces, daily, daisy, dales, deals, decaf, decal, decay, defis, deify, deils, delay, delfs, delis, dials, dices, dicey, discs, edify, essay, faced, faces, fades, fails, false, fayed, fecal, felid, fices, field, filed, files, fiscs, flays, fleas, fleys, flics, flied, flies, fyces, ideal, ideas, idles, idyls, ileac, isled, isles, laced, laces, lacey, lades, laics, lased, lases, layed, leads, leady, leafs, leafy, lyase, lycea, lysed, lyses, lysis, lyssa, sades, sadis, sadly, safes, saice, saids, sails, sales, salic, sayid, scads, scald, scale, scaly, seals, seifs, selfs, sials, sices, sides, sidle, silds, sisal, slays, sleds, slice, slide, syces, sylis, yield. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-l-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: declassifying. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c l a s s i f y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 006C 0061 0073 0073 0069 0066 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716978678585757291 |
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