| DEF | arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services |
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| DEF | experience an abatement of a fever |
| DEF | abatement of a fever |
| DEF | a defiant act |
| DEF | intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude |
| DEF | a hostile challenge |
| DEF | boldly resisting authority or an opposing force |
| DEF | in a rebellious manner |
| DEF | stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks |
| DEF | treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) |
| DEF | an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation |
| DEF | lack of an adequate quantity or number |