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Defiliation
- - Abstraction of a child from its parents.
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)
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
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)
Deformities
- noun - an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
- an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration"
Deglutition
- noun - the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"