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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 attributesplay

2. strip of feathersplay

  Familiarity information: DISPLUME used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPLUME (verb)


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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