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debarnacle

debarnacle verb: to remove the barnacles from.

Verb

debarnacle (third-person singular simple present debarnacles, present participle debarnacling, simple past and past participle debarnacled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the barnacles from.
    • to debarnacle a ship's hull
    • Barnacle-loaded ships bypass dry-docking by sailing into the freshwater lake, which debarnacles them automatically.1951, Fortnight: The Newsmagazine of California, page 27

Forms of debarnacle

third-person singular presentdebarnacles
present participledebarnacling
past participledebarnacled
pastdebarnacled

Origin of debarnacle

From de- + barnacle.

Questions about debarnacle

What does debarnacle mean?
Debarnacle means to remove the barnacles from.
What part of speech is debarnacle?
Debarnacle is a verb.
What is the past tense of debarnacle?
The past tense of debarnacle is debarnacled.

Words near debarnacle in the dictionary

  1. debarkers
  2. debarking
  3. debarks
  4. debarment
  5. debarments
  6. debarnacle
  7. debarnacled
  8. debarnacles
  9. debarnacling
  10. DeBarr
  11. debarrable

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