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disroof

disroof verb: to unroof; to remove the roof.

Verb

disroof (third-person singular simple present disroofs, present participle disroofing, simple past and past participle disroofed)

  1. (transitive) To unroof; to remove the roof.
    • Ghastly châteaus stare on you by the wayside; disroofed, diswindowed[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 340

Forms of disroof

third-person singular presentdisroofs
present participledisroofing
past participledisroofed
pastdisroofed

Origin of disroof

From dis- + roof.

Questions about disroof

What does disroof mean?
Disroof means to unroof; to remove the roof.
What part of speech is disroof?
Disroof is a verb.
What is the past tense of disroof?
The past tense of disroof is disroofed.

Words near disroof in the dictionary

  1. disrober
  2. disrobers
  3. disrobes
  4. disrobing
  5. disrobings
  6. disroof
  7. disroofed
  8. disroofing
  9. disroofs
  10. disroot
  11. disrooted

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