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detrunk

detrunk verb: to downgrade (a trunk road) to a normal highway.

Verb

detrunk (third-person singular simple present detrunks, present participle detrunking, simple past and past participle detrunked)

  1. (transitive) To downgrade (a trunk road) to a normal highway.
    • Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road. I put it to the Minister in the strongest possible terms that it would be quite wrong and extremely damaging to proceed with the proposals to detrunk those two roads, which form part of the agreed national Argyll tourist route...1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates
    • Simultaneously, the Department for Transport detrunked many roads, shifting the responsibility – and the cost – of maintenance and improvement to local authorities […]2013, Barry Hutton, Planning Sustainable Transport

Forms of detrunk

third-person singular presentdetrunks
present participledetrunking
past participledetrunked
pastdetrunked

Origin of detrunk

From de- + trunk.

Questions about detrunk

What does detrunk mean?
Detrunk means to downgrade (a trunk road) to a normal highway.
What part of speech is detrunk?
Detrunk is a verb.
What is the past tense of detrunk?
The past tense of detrunk is detrunked.

Words near detrunk in the dictionary

  1. detruncated
  2. detruncates
  3. detruncating
  4. detruncation
  5. detruncations
  6. detrunk
  7. detrunked
  8. detrunking
  9. detrunks
  10. detrusion
  11. detrusions

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