Meaning of deplume | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To strip of feathers or plumage.
   transitive
2. To lay bare; to expose.
   figuratively, transitive
3. To condense excess water vapor from the flue gas.

Equivalents

Examples

“On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.”

“Before the birds are cut and quartered by the butchers they must be totally deplumed.”

“the exposure and depluming […] of the leading humbugs of the age”

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