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de-escalatory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
de-esca-la-to-ry
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to de-escalate a situation.

Inflected Forms

more de-escalatory (comparative) most de-escalatory (superlative) deescalatory (alternative)

Questions

What does de-escalatory mean?
Tending to de-escalate a situation.

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