deuxièmement (-zièm-mān), adv., secondly.
deux-points, n.m., (—) (gram.) colon.
dévalement, n.m., sloping, slope; letting-down, lowering.
☉dévaler, v.a., to let down; to descend, to go or come down. — les degrés; to go down the stairs. — du vin à la cave; to let wine down into the cellar.
☉dévaler, v.n., to descend, to slope, to go down, to come down (stream).
dévalisement, n.m., rifling, robbing, stripping.
dévaliser, v.a., to rifle, to strip, to rob, to plunder.
dévaliseu-r, -se, n.m.f., robber, plunderer.
devancer, v.a., to precede, to go before; to get before, to outrun, to outwalk, to outstrip; to take the place of; to have the precedence; to be beforehand, to forestall, to get the start of; to anticipate; to go beyond, to surpass, to outdo. — à cheval; to outride. Son génie a devancé son siècle; his genius has outrun his century. J’allais vous voir, mais vous m’avez devancé; I was going to see you, but you are beforehand with me. Avoir de l’argent — soi; to have money at or in hand.
devanci-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., predecessor. pl., ancestors, forefathers.