decrown
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /diːˈkɹaʊn/
Verb
decrown (third-person singular simple present decrowns, present participle decrowning, simple past and past participle decrowned)
- (transitive) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
- 1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams:
- the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings
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- (transitive, dentistry) To decoronate (a tooth).
- (transitive) To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
Further reading
- decrown in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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