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Deceptive
- adjective - designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
Decertify
- verb - cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"
Decession
- - Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.
Decillion
- - According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]
Declaring
- verb - announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"
- authorize payments of; "declare dividends"
- declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?"
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast"
- state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"
- state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
Declawing
- verb - remove the claws from; "declaw a cat"
Declining
- verb -
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- go down; "The roof declines here"
- grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
- grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"
- Turn down
Declivity
- noun - a downward slope or bend
Decocting
- verb - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water