Power Prefixes for Eleventh Grade Students: de-

Learn these words formed with the prefix de- meaning "away from, down, off."
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  1. debark
    exit from a vehicle, especially a boat
  2. debase
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  3. debit
    an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing
  4. debrief
    elicit a report from someone about a mission, job, or event
  5. debris
    the remains of something that has been destroyed
  6. debunk
    expose while ridiculing
  7. decay
    the organic phenomenon of rotting
  8. deceive
    cause someone to believe an untruth
  9. decline
    grow worse
  10. deduct
    make a subtraction
  11. depart
    go away or leave
  12. depression
    a sunken or lowered geological formation
  13. derail
    run off or leave the tracks
  14. descend
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  15. detach
    cause to become separated
Created on Wed Jun 18 12:32:40 EDT 2025 (updated Wed Jun 18 12:32:45 EDT 2025)

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