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DISPLUME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does displume mean?
• DISPLUME (verb)
The verb DISPLUME has 2 senses:
1. strip of honors, possessions, or attributes
Familiarity information: DISPLUME used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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
Meaning:
Strip of feathers
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
deplumate; deplume; displume; pluck; pull; tear
Context example:
pluck the capon
Hypernyms (to "displume" is one way to...):
strip (remove the surface from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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