

deferment (s) (noun), deferments (pl)
1. The act of putting off, or an instance of delaying, until a future time: Janice asked her new boss, Mrs. Anderson, for a deferment of one week before she started her new position.
2. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service: Roger received notice of his deferment by mail the day before he was supposed to have reported for duty in the army.
deferred (adjective), more deferred, most deferred
1. Withheld, suspended, delayed until a future date: The reporters from the local paper waited all night to hear about the deferred decision that the judge would announce.
2. Classified as a temporary, or a permanent, exemption from being inducted into a military service: Horst was very disappointed when he read about his deferred acceptance into the marines until an additional medical examination was completed.
defiance (s) (noun), defiances (pl)
defiant (adjective), more defiant, most defiant


defiantly (adverb), more defiantly, most defiantly
defibrillate (verb), defibrillates; defibrillated; defibrillating
defibrillation (s) (noun), defibrillations (pl)


defibrillator (s) (noun), defibrillators (pl)
Devices that are used to correct dangerously abnormal heart rhythms; usually, ventricular or sudden muscle spasms or involuntary contractions of a heart muscle or group of muscles or to restart hearts by depolarizing their electrical conduction systems and delivering brief measured electrical shocks to the chest wall or more directly to the heart muscles: The patient's doctor applied a defibrillator to counteract the irregular movements of his heart muscles and and to restore his normal heartbeats by applying a brief electric shock.
deficiency (s) (noun), deficiencies (pl)
deficit (s) (noun), deficits (pl)
defier (s) (noun), defiers (pl)
defile (s) (noun), defiles (pl)
2. A march in a line.
defile (verb), defiles; defiled; defiling