decapitalizing

Verb

decapitalize (third-person singular simple present decapitalizes, present participle decapitalizing, simple past and past participle decapitalized)

1. (transitive) To uncapitalize (convert the first letter (or more) of (something) from uppercase to lowercase).
2. (transitive) To convert a capital value, typically into a rental.
3. (transitive) To remove (something's) status as a capital crime; to cause (something) to no longer be a capital crime.
   • In 1801 Connecticut decapitalized arson, but only where no victim's life had been placed in danger.2009, Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: an American history, page 131