defeasible
- a capable of being annulled or voided or terminated
a claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried
deepening
- n a process of becoming deeper and more profound
- v make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- v become more intense
- v make deeper
- v become deeper in tone
- s accumulating and becoming more intense
the deepening gloom
felt a deepening love
defamatory
- s (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
defeated
- n people who are defeated
the Romans had no pity for the defeated - v win a victory over
- v thwart the passage of
- a beaten or overcome; not victorious
the defeated enemy - s disappointingly unsuccessful
defective
- s having a defect
I returned the appliance because it was defective - s markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
defective speech - s not working properly
a defective appliance