| DERIVE | • derive v. (Transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else. • derive v. (Transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. • derive v. (Transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). |
| DEVEIN | • devein v. (Transitive) To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). • DEVEIN v. to remove the dorsal vein of. |
| DEVICE | • device n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. • device n. (Computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware. • device n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. |
| DEVISE | • devise v. (Transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something). • devise v. (Transitive) To leave (property) in a will. • devise v. (Intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
| ENDIVE | • endive n. A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). • ENDIVE n. (French) a salad plant of the chicory genus. |
| ENVIED | • envied v. Simple past tense and past participle of envy. • envied adj. That is the object of envy. • envied v. Simple past tense and past participle of envie. |
| EVITED | • evited v. Simple past tense and past participle of evite. • EVITE v. to avoid, also EVITATE. |
| LEVIED | • levied v. Simple past tense and past participle of levy. • LEVY v. to impose or collect by legal authority. |
| MIEVED | • mieved v. Simple past tense and past participle of mieve. • MIEVE v. (Spenser) to move. |
| REIVED | • reived v. Simple past tense and past participle of reive. • REIVE v. (archaic) to plunder, rob, also REAVE, RIEVE. |
| REVIED | • revied v. Simple past tense and past participle of revie. • REVIE v. to stake higher. |
| RIEVED | • rieved v. Simple past tense and past participle of rieve. • RIEVE v. to rob, plunder, also REAVE, REIVE. |
| SIEVED | • sieved v. Past participle of sieve. • sieved adj. Passed through a sieve. • SIEVE v. to pass through a strainer. |
| VEILED | • veiled adj. Covered by a veil. • veiled adj. (Figurative) Partly hidden or concealed. • veiled v. Simple past tense and past participle of veil. |
| VEINED | • veined adj. (Sometimes in combination) Having veins or veinlike markings. • veined v. Simple past tense and past participle of vein. • VEIN v. to fill with tubular blood vessels. |
| VIEWED | • viewed v. Simple past tense and past participle of view. • viewed adj. Having been viewed; having been seen, watched or witnessed. • VIEW v. to look at. |
| VISEED | • viséed v. Simple past tense and past participle of visé. • VISA v. to stamp with an official endorsement. |
| VOIDEE | • voidee n. (Now only historical) A cup of wine drunk with spices or other small accompaniments, taken before retiring… • VOIDEE n. (historical) wine and light food taken before going to bed. |