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deplume vt. 剥去羽毛,拔羽毛,剥夺 剥去羽毛,拔羽毛,剥夺 deplume v 1: strip of honors, possessions, or attributes [ synonym: { deplume}, { displume}] 2: strip of feathers; " pull a chicken"; " pluck the capon" [ synonym: { pluck}, { pull}, { tear}, { deplume}, { deplumate}, { displume}] Deplume \ De* plume"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Deplumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Depluming}.] [ LL. deplumare; L. de- plumare to cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless, and F. d[' e] plumer.] 1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. [ 1913 Webster] On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lay bare; to expose. [ 1913 Webster] The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " deplume": abase, bleed, bleed white, boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, defrock, degrade, demote, denude, depose, deprive, despoil, disbar, discharge, discredit, disemploy, disgrace, disgrade, dishonor, dismiss, displace, displume, divest, downgrade, drain, drum out, dry, exhaust, expel, fire, flay, fleece, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humble, humiliate, impoverish, impute shame to, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lower, make redundant, milk, pension off, pick clean, pillory, pluck, put to shame, read out of, reduce, reflect discredit upon, release, remove, replace, reproach, retire, sack, separate forcibly, shame, shear, skin, strip, strip bare, strip of rank, suck dry, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unfrock
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