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Defection
- noun - the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
Defective
- adjective - Faulty
- having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
- markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
- not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
Defending
- verb - argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
- attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
- be on the defensive; act against an attack
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"
- fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
- protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"
- protect or fight for as a champion
- state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"
Defensive
- adjective - an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')
- attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
- intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack; "defensive weapons"; "a defensive stance"
Deferring
- verb - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- to put off till later
- yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
Deflating
- verb - become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
- collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
- produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy"
- reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress"
Deflation
- noun - (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"
- a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices
- the act of letting the air out of something
Deflexion
- 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"
- 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
Defluxion
- - A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.
Defogging
- verb - free from mist; "demist the car windows"