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Decrepitate
- verb - to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts"
- undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated"
Decrepitude
- noun - a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
- infirmity
Decumbiture
- - Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
Decussating
- verb - cross or intersect so as to form a cross; "this nerve decussates the other"; "the fibers decussate"
Decussation
- noun - an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
Decussative
- - Intersecting at acute angles.
Defalcating
- verb - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"