deception
— Noun
– English
～ an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
deception
— Noun
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～ a misleading falsehood
deceptive
— Adjective
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～ causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
deceptive
— Adjective
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～ designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
deceptively
— Adverb
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～ in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy"
deceptiveness
— Noun
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～ the quality of being deceptive
decerebrate
— Verb
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～ remove the cerebrum from (a human body)
decertify
— Verb
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～ cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"
dechlorinate
— Verb
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～ remove chlorine from (water)
decibel
— Noun
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～ a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity
decide
— Verb
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～ reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
decide
— Verb
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～ influence or determine; "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election"
decide
— Verb
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～ bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
decide
— Verb
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～ cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!"
decided
— Adjective
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～ recognizable; marked; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"
decidedly
— Adverb
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～ without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win"
deciding
— Adjective
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～ having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
deciding
— Noun
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～ the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"