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Deflagrate
- verb - burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated"
- cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated"
Deforciant
- - One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. (b) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
Degeneracy
- noun - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Degenerate
- adjective - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
- Deteriorating
- grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
Delaminate
- unknown - split by removing veneer
- Split into thin layers
Deliberate
- adjective - carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony"
- discuss the pros and cons of an issue
- think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
- unhurried and with care and dignity;
Delimitate
- verb - determine the essential quality of
- set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
Deliquiate
- - To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
Delitigate
- - To chide; to rail heartily.
Delta Wave
- noun - the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person in deep dreamless sleep; occurs with high voltage and low frequency (1 to 4 hertz)