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DISPLUME

Dictionary entry overview: What does displume mean?

• DISPLUME (verb)
The verb DISPLUME has 2 senses:

1. strip of honors, possessions, or attributes
2. strip of feathers

Familiarity information: DISPLUME used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DISPLUME (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Strip of honors, possessions, or attributes

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

deplume; displume

Hypernyms (to "displume" is one way to...):

despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip (steal goods; take as spoils)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

displume ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Strip of feathers

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

deplumate; deplume; displume; tear; pluck; pull

Context examples:

pull a chicken / pluck the capon

Hypernyms (to "displume" is one way to...):

strip (remove the surface from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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DISPLUME: related words searches

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» reave: pronunciation in phonetic transcription
» Meaning of pillage
» strip: pronunciation in phonetic transcription

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