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deferred income taxes
deferred month
deferred sentence
defervescence
Defiance
defiance
defiant
defibrillate
defibrillator
deficiency
deficiency disease
deficiency of aggregate demand
deficient
deficit
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defibrillator
de·fib·ril·la·tor [ dee fíbbrə làytər, dee fbrə làytər ] (plural de·fib·ril·la·tors)


noun 
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electric-shock machine: a machine that administers a controlled electric shock to the chest or heart to correct a critically irregular heartbeat that cannot drive the circulation
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