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depluming

depluming is the present participle and gerund 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 depluming

What is depluming the present participle and gerund of?
Depluming is the present participle and gerund of deplume.

Words near depluming in the dictionary

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

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