It's de-lightful, it's de-lovely, it's de-licious, that in English you can take the prefix de- and negate any noun, adjective, verb or adverb. But just because you can doesn't mean you should, and some of the results may have been useful to their inventors but are rather de-lovely to look at!
Ray Winstone is bombastic enough and, via the magic of animation, he is de-aged and given a physique that Arnold Schwarzenegger would envy.James Berardinelli, review of "Beowulf".
Then he has to undergo a serious de-asshole-ification. Then he has to bust his balls trying to get Sakura to like him again. Only then will I be satisfied.Can also be used literally, as in this sequence of subtitles from the movie "Coup de Torchon" (this rendering is patched together from a vague memory)
You know why dogs sniff each other like that? A long time ago they were going to have a meeting and one of them said, "Let's leave our assholes at the door so they don't stink up the place," so they all de-assholed and then a cat came and they all ran out after it, each just grabbing any asshole they could, and ever since then, when one dog sniffs another, it's just saying "Do you have my asshole?"
The phone booth had an automatic door and I couldn't de-automate it and I was getting really beat up because we were up against the gun so I just shot it.Ridley Scott, interviewed in Wired, October 2007.
And people have been predicting the slow de-Babylonization of New Orleans for decades.The New York Times, 31 August 2005.
Stern Commission Wants to Debench Judge Who Wouldn't Let Police Run Her Courtroom.
De-Brahminizing Religion and Culture in IndiaTitle of a lecture given by a visiting Indian scholar in Blacksburg, Virginia in February, 2008.
Gorbachev's attempt to de-Brezhnevize the Soviet economy started from a position of economic and ideological confidence. Let Police Run Her Courtroom.
...the days of relative innocence in America, when the young were asking only for a little more freedom, a bit more sex and debourgeoisation.John Updike, in "Bech at Bay".
The Beam Division at Fermilab, among other duties, supervises the functionality of the debuncher ring. The function of the debuncher is to receive beams of antiprotons from the beamline AP-2 and reduce their momentum spread through modifications affecting their frequencies.
ACM is considering the de-charter of the following student chapters due to inactivity.
The final play of the game resulted in sophomore Mark Sweeney running down the right sideline of the field to leave his feet and decleat number 2 from Kutztown University, which resulted in the ball dropping to the ground.
Patrick: What's so important about a [bathroom door] lock?"Coupling", Series 3, Episode 6.
Steve: You need to be enclosed. Secure all areas. Otherwise you can't declench.
Patrick: Declench?
Steve: Declenching is out of the question without a lock.
Patrick: No offence but have you guys ever been declenched?
Steve: You need security. You need to be able to say to yourself "I'm safe, I'm alone. No one's going to walk in and laugh. Mummy's gone to the shops."
Then I tasted it - it was like 7-Up and Dr Pepper and Pepsi and tap water all sort of randomly mixed and decolorized.Douglas Coupland, "Microserfs".
Halfway through the meal, Michael said over his Filet-o-Fish, "Las Vegas is perhaps about the constant attempt of humans to decomplexify complex systems."Douglas Coupland, "Microserfs".
The vase broke, fractured, shattered, was decreated.Susan Sontag, "The Volcano Lover"
The floorboards where he rested rose and dipped in an irregular wave, de-crucified by time and wear.Sam Millar, "The Redemption Factory".
"Monsieur!" the man in the suit began, as our waiter set down our entrees, another one poured us fresh water, and a third waiter carefully decrumbed our not-very-crumby table.Jennifer Weiner, "Good in Bed"
But while the Bush team has been lecturing the Iraqi Shiites to limit de-Baathification to Baghdad, it was carrying out its own de-Democratization in the Justice Department in Washington.The New York Times, 16 May 2007.
"We are determined to reverse the impact of decades of conflict and de-development," the report said.The New York Times, 6 December 2007.
The kind had ordered Khwajah to be de-eared during a royal picnic, after the tent protecting the king's wives from sight had blown down in a gust of wind.Ben Macintyre, "The Man Who Would Be King"
An iconoclastic counterculture darling like The National Lampoon gets so popular that it is taken over and de-edged for the masses?Jim Bernath, Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, 17 July 2005.
There's no topic like eschatology (from Greek 'ta eschata', the last things) to trigger angst - to the extent that some German scholars, anxious to avoid the subject, have subjected the scriptures to what Pelikan calls enteschatologisierung (or less impressively in English, de-eschatologization).Stan Kelly-Bootle, QUEUE, June 2004.
"You," he replies, "who married a femme fatale?"Philip Roth in "The Professor of Desire".
"But only to de-fatalize her, to de-fang her, along the way."
DEFOREST YOUR MAILBOXThe New York Times, 18 October 2007.
I don't know about you, but defriending (whether I'm the defriender or the defriendee) always makes me a little sad. In case you don't know about it already, defriending, in Second Life is when somebody takes you off their friends list. They disappear from yours too, so if you think to look for them there, that's how you can tell.
Before Burger King pulled the campaign, there had been no shortage of Facebookers willing to slim down their friend lists while fattening their bellies. Nearly 234,000 Faceboookers were defriended for the sake of a hamburger.
I have a four year old cat. Yesterday I was a bad mom and left a window open. The window shut on her tail and it was degloved.A deglove injury happens when skin is forced to peel back from a part of your body, especially a limb or appendage. It is sort of like removing a glove, sleeve, or mask. Deglove injury attorneys are litigators who deal with the common injuries involving a deglove incident or accident involving removal of skin from your body or your child's body.
The most common surgical technique is to deglove the penis by making a cut around the shaft near the glans penis and peeling back the skin to the base to examine the inner surface.
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One McIntosh apple, puffing hard, can turn out enough ethylene to de-green a dozen oranges in a day or two.John McPhee, "Oranges".
On page seventy-seven he tells us, "An excellent way to dehaunt a house would be to make it the residence of a newly fertilized woman just prior to normal entry of the Mac into the fetus."Mary Roach, "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife"
DECAF IS JOINED BY DE-HEARTBURNThe New York Times, 14 March 2007.
This way the athletes come off best, with their star roles intact, which they deliberately exchange for roles in the modeling world. So the athletes themselves understand their deheroization.A Der Spiegel interview with Peter Sloterdijk, reprinted in Harper's, September 2006.
"She made it her personal project to embed some self-esteem and stronger values in these women," Mr Hirschhorn said. Or, as another VH1 executive put it, "She said she wanted to de-hootchify them."The New York Times, 04 February 2007
"Ever since the Pittsburgh airport was de-hubbed it's been impossible to get a direct flight to anywhere."An overheard conversation.
That is all - yet, when we board the streetcar and sit down beside each other, I take her hand and feel suddenly purged of yet another ghost, as de-Kafkafied by my pilgrimage to the cemetery as I would appear to have been de-Birgittized once and for all by that visitation on the terrace restaurant in Venice.Philip Roth, "The Professor of Desire".
(Morozov was the fourteen-year-old boy who, during the early thirties' dekulakization, turned his father in to the authorities for hoarding grain. He was rewarded by those in the small village in which he lived by being gloriously beaten to death - so the story went...)Jack Womack, in "Let's Put the Future Behind Us".
Antoine took off her helmet and began de-leeching the inside of it.Richard Preston, "The Wild Trees".
There is a troubling shift towards demedicalization of cosmetic medicine, turning it into a customer service akin to haircutting and toenail trimming.The New York Times, 26 October 2006.
Mondi, its paper and packaging business, is being demerged and is due to list in London and Johannesburg on July 3rd.The Economist, 30 June 2007.
The object of demosaicing is to interpolate the missing red, green, and blue values from the available ones so that the reconstructed image can be as close to the original full-resolution color image as possible.
I rolled down all four of the car's windows to demuskify the car and once again went into my road atlas - cell phone tableau vivant.Susan Isaacs, "Any Place I Hang My Hat".
Simplification or denesting of radical expressions is a natural simplification problem that algebraic and symbolic manipulation systems face.Johannes Bloemer, "Denesting by Bounded Degree Radicals".
I had been fearing that Viz was going to de-nippleize this one (due to the release dates being changed), and I am very happy to find out that that is not so.
Threshold de-noising by wavelet transform is very similar to the method that our ears take to de-noise a music signal.
Her cold-blooded father, I remembered, would hold forth at length, once he had gone from being an engineer to an executive, about his efforts to streamline and deobsoletize the plant's operation.John Updike, "Roger's Version".
They just didn't want the phone. They needn't have bothered. The new iPod Touch is exactly what they wanted: a dephoned iPhone.The New York Times, 13 September 2007.
So the entire monument was depigeoned, then the bronze was cleaned and recoated with new patina.The New York Times, 17 September 2007.
"Good luck, kid," Gabby had said grandly, waddling over to my desk for her farewell, beaming as if she hadn't spent the past two weeks lobbying for the editors to run wire copy instead of giving me a chance while she was off, presumably being de-polyped.Jennifer Weiner, "Good in Bed"
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Never forget the first Pope John XXIII was depoped.When negative piglets are produced on a consistent basis and when we know that there is no virus circulation in the sow herd, (using the new breeding stock as sentinels) the other sites could be depoped and repoped with the newly negative offspring from the sow herd.
Recent discoveries in astronomy and cosmology bring to light inescapable conclusions and profound awareness. Ancient beliefs are being deprovincialized.
The California Supreme Court declined yesterday to depublish a Fifth District Court of Appeal ruling requiring the Bakersfield City School District to release discipline records of a school administrator charged with murder to the Bakersfield Californian.
Why she chose mad poets, I can't depuzzle entirely, but if you collect, I suppose you have to specialise, and, if you are interested in studying them as Odile was, they have the advantage of writing down some of their own ramblings.Tibor Fischer, "The Collector Collector"
To de-queen and let the bees raise a replacement is a very old method of controlling swarming and under a few conditions may make a lot of sense.
Other couples, derealized in the drift of the night, loomed up on us and vanished.TC Boyle, "The Inner Circle".
ADMISSIONS OFFICES RECEIVING DERECOMMENDATION PACKETSVirginia Tech's "Collegiate Times", 03 December 2008.
The de-religionized spirituality of Mitch Albom's No. 1-selling "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"?Anonymous word slinger in "The Year in Culture" article in Time Magazine's 2003 Year End edition. What was wrong with "secularized"? Is there any way we can de-dumbize these people?
And it was never but once a year that they were brought together anyway, and that was on the neutral dereligionized ground of Thanksgiving.Philip Roth, "American Pastoral"
Unlike Thain, Fuld hadn't been brought in to fix Lehman - he had built it. So, making the agressive de-risking moves Thain was making would have meant dismantling his own aggressive growth and leverage strategy.Henry Blodget, SLATE Magazine, 15 September 2008.
Stephane Bern, a journalist and specialist in French royalty and society, calls it the de-sacred-ization of the French presidency, adding that he is reserving judgment on whether all this change will be better or worse for France.The New York Times, 31 May 2007.
In the prewar planning, the State Department had advocated Desaddamification Ñ a purging of those who had committed crimes (in the name of the regime) and the very top of the command structure.
Because of the rain and his wet shoes Ben can now desock with the rest of the Deadheads without feeling guilty.Douglas Coupland, "Polaroids from the Dead".
SUPERMODEL, "DESPOTIZED", SEEKS COMMUNITY SERVICE IN ASSAULT CASE
"That's why it's so upsetting that someone who has devoted so much time to charity is being despotized," Mr Breitbart said.The New York Times, 16 November 2006.
First, it would not have been appropriate to attempt to classify ... The Joke ... as a detenurable offense.Edward Allen, "Mustang Sally".
One of the first and most noticeable effects of detraining is that that plasma volume is lost.The New York Times, 22 November 2007.
Detrending is the process of removing an undesired trend in a time series.
So this weekend, give your hookup-buddy a call, show him or her this article, and get off third base already. It's time to de-virginize this campus once and for all!
It was hard, halfway through 1998, for even him to believe in American propriety's enduring power, and he was the one who considered himself tyrannized: the bridle it still is on public rhetoric, the inspiration it provides for personal posturing, the persistence just about everywhere of this de-virilizing pulpit virtue-mongering that H. L. Mencken identified with boobism, that Philip Wylie though of as Momism, that the Europeans unhistorically call American puritanism, that the likes of Ronald Reagan call America's core values, and that maintains widespread jurisdiction by masquerading itself as something else - as everything else.Philip Roth, "The Human Stain".
Engineers have been quoted as saying that the 13 1/2-foot-wide aqueduct could very well collapse if it were drained for repairs, since the flow of water helps hold up the tunnel walls that data from the 1940s. Mr Rush described what sounds almost like a logistical Catch-22. "We have to consider the effects of dewatering it, or taking it out of a pressured state," he said.The New York Times, 11 April 2008.
Le Bor describes Jaffa's past as idyllic. His vision of the future includes the de-Zionization of Israel.The New York Times Book Review, 27 May 2007.
The publishers will be squeezed at best and disintermediated at worst.Jacob Weisberg, Slate, 21 March 2009.
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