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deglorify

deglorify verb: to remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious; to dishonour.

Verb

deglorify (third-person singular simple present deglorifies, present participle deglorifying, simple past and past participle deglorified)

  1. To remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious; to dishonour.
    • One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime

Forms of deglorify

third-person singular presentdeglorifies
present participledeglorifying
past participledeglorified
pastdeglorified

Origin of deglorify

From de- + glorify.

Questions about deglorify

What does deglorify mean?
Deglorify means to remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious; to dishonour.
What part of speech is deglorify?
Deglorify is a verb.
What is the past tense of deglorify?
The past tense of deglorify is deglorified.

Words near deglorify in the dictionary

  1. deglomerations
  2. degloried
  3. deglorification
  4. deglorified
  5. deglorifies
  6. deglorify
  7. deglorifying
  8. degloss
  9. deglossed
  10. deglosser
  11. deglossers

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