dedans, n.m., inside; interior. Du — au dehors; from within outwards. Au — et au dehors; at home and abroad.
dédicace, n.f., dedication, consecration; inscription.
dédicatoire, adj., dedicatory.
dédier, v.a., to dedicate, to consecrate; to devote; to inscribe.
dédire, v.a., to gainsay, to unsay, to contradict, to disown.
se dédire, v.r., to recant, to retract, to unsay what one has said; to go back from one’s word, to recede. Se — de sa promesse; to revoke one’s promise. Il ne peut s’en —; he cannot go back on it or back out of it.
dédit, n.m., unsaying; forfeit, forfeiture; retraction; deed stipulating forfeiture. Au — de; on the forfeiture of. Avoir son dit et son —; to say yes one day and no the next.
dédommagement (-maj-mān), n.m., indemnification; compensation, damages, amends, indemnity.
dédommager, v.a., to indemnify, to make amends, to make good; to compensate, to make up for.
se dédommager, v.r., to indemnify one’s self, to recoup one’s self.