deduct
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～ retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes"
deduct
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～ reason by deduction; establish by deduction
deem
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～ keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"
deepen
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～ make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
deepen
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～ make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it"
deepen
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～ become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
deepen
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～ become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
deface
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～ mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
defalcate
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～ 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"
defame
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～ charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"; "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
defang
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～ remove the fangs from; "defang the poisonous snake"
defeat
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～ win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
defeat
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～ thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
defecate
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～ have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
defect
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～ desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
defeminise
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～ remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
defeminize
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～ remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
defend
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～ state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"