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depetals

depetals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depetal.

Meaning of depetal

Verb

depetal (third-person singular simple present depetals, present participle (US) depetaling or (UK) depetalling, simple past and past participle (US) depetaled or (UK) depetalled)

  1. (transitive) To strip of petals.
    • Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.2007 October 21, Amy Serafin, “The Louvre Now Accepts the Living”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    dispetal

Questions about depetals

What is depetals the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Depetals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depetal.

Words near depetals in the dictionary

  1. depetal
  2. depetaled
  3. depetaling
  4. depetalled
  5. depetalling
  6. depetals
  7. Depew
  8. Depews
  9. depharyngealization
  10. dephase
  11. dephased

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depetals (page history and authors); depetal (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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