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detrunks

detrunks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 detrunks

What is detrunks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Detrunks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detrunk.

Words near detrunks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detrunks (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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