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disendow

disendow verb: to deprive of an endowment.

Verb

disendow (third-person singular simple present disendows, present participle disendowing, simple past and past participle disendowed)

  1. To deprive of an endowment.
    • by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church1868, a London rector, letter to William Ewart Gladstone

Forms of disendow

third-person singular presentdisendows
present participledisendowing
past participledisendowed
pastdisendowed

Origin of disendow

From dis- + endow.

Words formed from disendow

Questions about disendow

What does disendow mean?
Disendow means to deprive of an endowment.
What part of speech is disendow?
Disendow is a verb.
What is the past tense of disendow?
The past tense of disendow is disendowed.

Words near disendow in the dictionary

  1. disendorsed
  2. disendorsement
  3. disendorsements
  4. disendorses
  5. disendorsing
  6. disendow
  7. disendowed
  8. disendower
  9. disendowers
  10. disendowing
  11. disendowment

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