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de-escalatory

de-escalatory adjective: tending to de-escalate a situation.

Adjective

de-escalatory (comparative more de-escalatory, superlative most de-escalatory)

  1. Tending to de-escalate a situation.

Forms of de-escalatory

comparativemore de-escalatory
superlativemost de-escalatory
alternative formdeescalatory

Questions about de-escalatory

What does de-escalatory mean?
De-escalatory means tending to de-escalate a situation.
What part of speech is de-escalatory?
De-escalatory is an adjective.

Words near de-escalatory in the dictionary

  1. de-escalated
  2. de-escalates
  3. de-escalating
  4. de-escalation
  5. de-escalations
  6. de-escalatory
  7. de-ess
  8. de-essed
  9. de-esser
  10. de-essers
  11. de-esses

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