10 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
verb grant independence to (a former colony)
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English colonize English decolonize From de- + colonize.
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