Definition of "de-" in English

prefix

reversal, undoing
- de- + couple → decouple
- de- + align → dealign
- de- + ice → de-ice
- de- + baptize → debaptize
to remove from, removed
- de- + bus → debus
- de- + bark → debark
- de- + benzylate → debenzylate
- de- + arterialization → dearterialization
Intensifying
- de- + fraud → defraud
- de- + complex → decomplex
- de- + numerate → denumerate
- de- + pauperize → depauperize
- de- + prostrate → deprostrate
- de- + specificate → despecificate
derived from, of
- de- + substantival → desubstantival
- de- + verbal → deverbal
- de- + mise → demise
down, downward
- de- + scando → descend
- de- + press → depress