Meaning of DEPLUME
| Pronunciation: | | dee'ploom
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- [v] strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
- [v] strip of honors, possessions, or attributes
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| | Synonyms: | | deplumate, displume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| | See Also: | | despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip, strip | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*plume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deplumed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Depluming}.] [LL. deplumare; L. de- + plumare to
cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless,
and F. d['e]plumer.]
1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of
plumage.
On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own
feather. --Fuller.
2. To lay bare; to expose.
The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of
the age. --De Quincey.
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| | Related Terms: | | abase, bleed, bleed white, boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, defrock, degrade, demote, denude, depose, deprive, despoil, disbar, discharge, discredit, disemploy, disgrace, disgrade, dishonor, dismiss, displace, displume, divest, downgrade, drain, drum out, dry, exhaust, expel, fire, flay, fleece, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humble, humiliate, impoverish, impute shame to, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lower, make redundant, milk, pension off, pick clean, pillory, pluck, put to shame, read out of, reduce, reflect discredit upon, release, remove, replace, reproach, retire, sack, separate forcibly, shame, shear, skin, strip, strip bare, strip of rank, suck dry, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unfrock |
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