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decentres

decentres is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decentre.

Meaning of decentre

Verb

decentre (third-person singular simple present decentres, present participle decentring, simple past and past participle decentred)

  1. To remove the centre from.
    • to decentre the tyres from some model vehicle kits
  2. To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
  3. To displace from the centre.
    • The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 14

Questions about decentres

What is decentres the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Decentres is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decentre.

Words near decentres in the dictionary

  1. decentrations
  2. decentre
  3. decentred
  4. decentrer
  5. decentrers
  6. decentres
  7. decentring
  8. decentrings
  9. decenylene
  10. decephalization
  11. decephalizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decentres (page history and authors); decentre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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