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disfellowship

disfellowship verb: to subject to disfellowshipment.

Verb

disfellowship (third-person singular simple present disfellowships, present participle disfellowshipping or (US also) disfellowshiping, simple past and past participle disfellowshipped or (US also) disfellowshiped)

  1. (transitive) To subject to disfellowshipment.
    • Disfellowshipped persons, shunned by the organisation for their unrepented sins, slipped in at the last and sat by the door, ready to disappear at the end of the closing prayer.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 62
    Synonyms:
    excommunicate

Noun

disfellowship (uncountable)

  1. Lack of, or exclusion from, fellowship.

disfellowship meaning in Bengali

disfellowship in Bengali

সাহচর্যের অভাব, সাহচর্য থেকে বর্জন

Synonyms of disfellowship

Forms of disfellowship

third-person singular presentdisfellowships
present participledisfellowshipping
present participle US alsodisfellowshiping
past participledisfellowshipped
pastdisfellowshipped
past participle US alsodisfellowshiped
past US alsodisfellowshiped

Origin of disfellowship

From dis- + fellowship.

Questions about disfellowship

What does disfellowship mean?
Disfellowship means to subject to disfellowshipment.
What is disfellowship in Bengali?
Disfellowship in Bengali is সাহচর্যের অভাব, সাহচর্য থেকে বর্জন. See Disfellowship meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is disfellowship?
Disfellowship can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of disfellowship?
The past tense of disfellowship is disfellowshipped.

Words near disfellowship in the dictionary

  1. disfeature
  2. disfeatured
  3. disfeaturement
  4. disfeatures
  5. disfeaturing
  6. disfellowship
  7. disfellowshiped
  8. disfellowshiping
  9. disfellowshipment
  10. disfellowshipments
  11. disfellowshipped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disfellowship (page history and authors); disfellowship (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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