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De Bakey
- noun - United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908)
De Vries
- noun - Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel''s laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
- Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
Dead Sea
- noun - a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level
Dead Set
- adjective - fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event"
Deadened
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
Deadener
- - One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
Deadeyes
- noun - (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud
- a dead shot
Deadlier
- adjective - (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
- exceedingly harmful
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
- of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
Deafened
- verb - be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"
- caused to hear poorly or not at all
- make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
- make soundproof; "deafen a room"
Deathbed
- noun - the bed on which a person dies
- the last few hours before death