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discommission

discommission verb: to deprive of a commission or trust.

Verb

discommission (third-person singular simple present discommissions, present participle discommissioning, simple past and past participle discommissioned)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
    • discommissioning nine great officers in the army1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth
    • a. 1645, William Laud, autobiography
      I shall take that for proof enough, and proceed to discommission your printer, and suppress his press

Forms of discommission

third-person singular presentdiscommissions
present participlediscommissioning
past participlediscommissioned
pastdiscommissioned

Origin of discommission

From dis- + commission.

Questions about discommission

What does discommission mean?
Discommission means to deprive of a commission or trust.
What part of speech is discommission?
Discommission is a verb.
What is the past tense of discommission?
The past tense of discommission is discommissioned.

Words near discommission in the dictionary

  1. discommenders
  2. discommending
  3. discommends
  4. discommensurate
  5. discommensuration
  6. discommission
  7. discommissioned
  8. discommissioning
  9. discommissions
  10. discommodate
  11. discommodated

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