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Deflections
- noun - a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
- the property of being bent or deflected
Defloration
- noun - an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
- the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
Deflowering
- verb - deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"
- make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
Defoliating
- verb - strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"
Defoliation
- noun - causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals)
- the loss of foliage
Defoliators
- noun - an insect that strips the leaves from plants
Deforcement
- - A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. (b) (Scots Law) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
Deforesting
- verb - remove the trees from; "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks"
Deformation
- noun - a change for the worse
- alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it
- the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)