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Cessation
- noun - a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"
Deception
- noun - a misleading falsehood
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- the act of deceiving
Decoction
- noun - (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling
Decontrol
- verb - relax or remove controls of; "decontrol marijuana"
Deduction
- noun - a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- an amount or percentage deducted
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
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"
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
Dejection
- noun - a state of melancholy depression
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Dentation
- - Formation of teeth; toothed form.