CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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destabilise in CommonParlance
- definition become unstable
- definition make unstable
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destabilization in CommonParlance
- definition an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft)
- definition the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy)
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destabilize in CommonParlance
- definition become unstable
- definition make unstable
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destain in CommonParlance
- definition remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast
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destalinisation in CommonParlance
- definition social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
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destalinise in CommonParlance
- definition counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism
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destalinization in CommonParlance
- definition social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
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destalinize in CommonParlance
- definition counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism
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destination in CommonParlance
- definition the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- definition the ultimate goal for which something is done
- definition written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
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destine in CommonParlance
- definition decree or designate beforehand
- definition design or destine
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destined in CommonParlance
- definition headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- definition (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
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destiny in CommonParlance
- definition an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- definition the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events
- definition your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
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destitute in CommonParlance
- definition poor enough to need help from others
- definition completely wanting or lacking
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destitution in CommonParlance
- definition a state without friends or money or prospects
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destress in CommonParlance
- definition reduce the emphasis
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destroy in CommonParlance
- definition do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- definition destroy completely; damage irreparably
- definition defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- definition put (an animal) to death
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destroyable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being destroyed
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destroyed in CommonParlance
- definition spoiled or ruined or demolished
- definition destroyed physically or morally
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destroyer in CommonParlance
- definition a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
- definition a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
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destroyer escort in CommonParlance
- definition warship smaller than a destroyer; designed to escort fleets or convoys
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destroying angel in CommonParlance
- definition fungus similar to Amanita phalloides
- definition extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
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destruct in CommonParlance
- definition destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
- definition do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
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destructibility in CommonParlance
- definition vulnerability to destruction
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destructible in CommonParlance
- definition easily destroyed
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destruction in CommonParlance
- definition the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- definition an event that completely destroys something
- definition a final state