decrown
English
Etymology
de- + crown, or French découronner.
Pronunciation
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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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “decrown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)