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detrunked

detrunked is the simple past and past participle of detrunk.

Meaning of detrunk

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

Questions about detrunked

What is detrunked the simple past and past participle of?
Detrunked is the simple past and past participle of detrunk.

Words near detrunked in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detrunked (page history and authors); detrunk (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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