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Defalcation
- noun - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
- the sum of money that is misappropriated
Defalcators
- noun - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
Defensative
- - That which serves to protect or defend.
Deferential
- adjective - respectful
- showing deference
Defiliation
- - Abstraction of a child from its parents.
Defloration
- noun - an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
- the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
Defoliating
- verb - strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"
Defoliation
- noun - causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals)
- the loss of foliage
Defoliators
- noun - an insect that strips the leaves from plants