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Debility
- noun - the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Deciding
- verb - bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
- cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!"
- having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
- influence or determine; "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election"
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"
Decipium
- - A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.
Decision
- noun - (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred; "had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent"
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination"
- the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly"
- the outcome of a game or contest; "the team dropped three decisions in a row"
- the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose; "a man of unusual decisiveness"
Decisive
- adjective - characterized by decision and firmness; "an able and decisive young woman"; "we needed decisive leadership"; "she gave him a decisive answer"
- determining or having the power to determine an outcome; "cast the decisive vote"; "two factors had a decisive influence"
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"
- unmistakable; "had a decisive lead in the polls"
Dedition
- - The act of yielding; surrender.
Deficits
- noun - (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
- a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
- an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
Defiling
- verb - make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
- spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Defining
- verb - any process serving to define the shape of something
- decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- determine the essential quality of
- determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?"
- give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'"
- show the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object"