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deplumed

deplumed is the simple past and past participle of deplume.

Meaning of deplume

Verb

deplume (third-person singular simple present deplumes, present participle depluming, simple past and past participle deplumed)

  1. (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
    • On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
    Synonyms:
    defeather
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To lay bare; to expose.
    • the exposure and depluming […] of the leading humbugs of the agec. 1841, Thomas De Quincey, Libellous Attacks...
  3. To condense excess water vapor from the flue gas.

Questions about deplumed

What is deplumed the simple past and past participle of?
Deplumed is the simple past and past participle of deplume.

Words near deplumed in the dictionary

  1. deplumates
  2. deplumating
  3. deplumation
  4. deplumations
  5. deplume
  6. deplumed
  7. deplumes
  8. depluming
  9. depo
  10. depoaxes
  11. depoaxis

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