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dephlegm

dephlegm verb: to rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

Verb

dephlegm (third-person singular simple present dephlegms, present participle dephlegming, simple past and past participle dephlegmed)

  1. (obsolete, physical) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
    • Having almost filled a vial, capable of containing near a pound of human blood, with a mixture of that, and some rectify'd spirit of wine, by guess a fourth, or an eighth part; at the end of above three years, looking upon the same glass, stopt with nothing but a cork, we found it coagulated, or of...1684, Robert Boyle, Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood

Forms of dephlegm

third-person singular presentdephlegms
present participledephlegming
past participledephlegmed
pastdephlegmed

Origin of dephlegm

From de- + phlegm; compare French déphlegmer, déflegmer.

Questions about dephlegm

What does dephlegm mean?
Dephlegm means to rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
What part of speech is dephlegm?
Dephlegm is a verb.
What is the past tense of dephlegm?
The past tense of dephlegm is dephlegmed.

Words near dephlegm in the dictionary

  1. dephilosophising
  2. dephilosophize
  3. dephilosophized
  4. dephilosophizes
  5. dephilosophizing
  6. dephlegm
  7. dephlegmate
  8. dephlegmated
  9. dephlegmates
  10. dephlegmating
  11. dephlegmation

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