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de·plume

(dē-plo͞om′)

tr.v. de·plumed, de·plum·ing, de·plumes

To pluck the feathers from.

[Middle English deplumen, from Old French deplumer, from Medieval Latin dēplūmāre : Latin dē-, de- + Latin plūma, feather.]

de′plu·ma′tion n.

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deplume

(diːˈpluːm)

vb (tr)

1. to deprive of feathers; pluck

2. to deprive of honour, position, wealth, etc

ˌdepluˈmation n

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deplume

Past participle: deplumed
Gerund: depluming

Imperative
deplume
deplume

Present
I deplume
you deplume
he/she/it deplumes
we deplume
you deplume
they deplume

Preterite
I deplumed
you deplumed
he/she/it deplumed
we deplumed
you deplumed
they deplumed

Present Continuous
I am depluming
you are depluming
he/she/it is depluming
we are depluming
you are depluming
they are depluming

Present Perfect
I have deplumed
you have deplumed
he/she/it has deplumed
we have deplumed
you have deplumed
they have deplumed

Past Continuous
I was depluming
you were depluming
he/she/it was depluming
we were depluming
you were depluming
they were depluming

Past Perfect
I had deplumed
you had deplumed
he/she/it had deplumed
we had deplumed
you had deplumed
they had deplumed

Future
I will deplume
you will deplume
he/she/it will deplume
we will deplume
you will deplume
they will deplume

Future Perfect
I will have deplumed
you will have deplumed
he/she/it will have deplumed
we will have deplumed
you will have deplumed
they will have deplumed

Future Continuous
I will be depluming
you will be depluming
he/she/it will be depluming
we will be depluming
you will be depluming
they will be depluming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been depluming
you have been depluming
he/she/it has been depluming
we have been depluming
you have been depluming
they have been depluming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been depluming
you will have been depluming
he/she/it will have been depluming
we will have been depluming
you will have been depluming
they will have been depluming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been depluming
you had been depluming
he/she/it had been depluming
we had been depluming
you had been depluming
they had been depluming

Conditional
I would deplume
you would deplume
he/she/it would deplume
we would deplume
you would deplume
they would deplume

Past Conditional
I would have deplumed
you would have deplumed
he/she/it would have deplumed
we would have deplumed
you would have deplumed
they would have deplumed

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Verb	1.	deplume - strip of honors, possessions, or attributes displume despoil, foray, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, loot, plunder, strip - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
	2.	deplume - strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" deplumate, displume, tear, pluck, pull strip - remove the surface from; "strip wood"

Translations

plukken

deplume

vt bird → rupfen

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But today he had a feeling that if he had to deal with whatever was happening in the nation's river himself, if it came out of the press room at him with a machete, he'd get deplumed, whacked, and minced.