| defeat | (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
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| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defect | (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defer | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, give in, submit |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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