delabel

English

Verb

delabel (third-person singular simple present delabels, present participle delabeling, simple past and past participle delabeled)

1. To remove one or more label(s).

   Johnny went through the extra step to delabel the bottles before recycling them.

   • 2000, Eugene L. Mendonsa, The Politics of Divination:

     Once divination reveals the deviant and spells out the necessary rite of retribution, the deviant is able to delabel himself by performing this rite, which is also thought to remove the misfortune from the family.

Synonyms

• unlabel

Anagrams

• beladle, labeled