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discabinet

discabinet verb: to reveal (something secret).

Verb

discabinet (third-person singular simple present discabinets, present participle discabineting, simple past and past participle discabineted)

  1. (rare, transitive) To reveal (something secret).
    • Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page...
    • Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press...

Forms of discabinet

third-person singular presentdiscabinets
present participlediscabineting
past participlediscabineted
pastdiscabineted

Origin of discabinet

From dis- + cabinet.

Questions about discabinet

What does discabinet mean?
Discabinet means to reveal (something secret).
What part of speech is discabinet?
Discabinet is a verb.
What is the past tense of discabinet?
The past tense of discabinet is discabineted.

Words near discabinet in the dictionary

  1. disc packs
  2. disc rot
  3. disc-tongued frog
  4. disc-tongued frogs
  5. disc.
  6. discabinet
  7. discabineted
  8. discabineting
  9. discabinets
  10. discage
  11. discaged

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