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defibre

defibre is the alternative spelling of defiber.

Meaning of defiber

Verb

defiber (third-person singular simple present defibers, present participle defibering, simple past and past participle defibered)

  1. (US, transitive) To remove some or all fiber from.
    • The samples are defibered according to the kind of paper to be analyzed.1965, Forest Products Research Institute, Technical Note - Forest Products Research Institute

Forms of defibre

third-person singular presentdefibres
present participledefibring
past participledefibred
pastdefibred

Questions about defibre

What is defibre the alternative spelling of?
Defibre is the alternative spelling of defiber.

Words near defibre in the dictionary

  1. defibrating
  2. defibration
  3. defibrations
  4. defibrator
  5. defibrators
  6. defibre
  7. defibred
  8. defibres
  9. defibrillate
  10. defibrillated
  11. defibrillates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defibre (page history and authors); defiber (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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