(geometry) A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.

The tenth anniversary of an event or happening.

Occurring every ten years. / Of or related to a ten-year period, as a term of office.

(biology, anatomy) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development. / (botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.

An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

(transitive) To trick or mislead.

(uncountable) The act or process of decelerating. / (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).

The process or result of being gradually decomposed. / A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune. / (obsolete) Overthrow, downfall, ruin.

(intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.

(transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. / (transitive) To pour from one vessel into another. / (archaic, intransitive) To flow.