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defrock
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb defrock has 1 sense
- defrock(v = verb.social) unfrock - divest of the frock; of church officials; Array is one way to disinvest, divest
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
OXFORD DICTIONARY
defrock, v.tr. deprive (a person, esp. a priest) of ecclesiastical status.
Etymology
F d{eacute}froquer (as DE-, FROCK)
THESAURUS
defrock
boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, deconsecrate, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discredit, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, disgrace, dishonor, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, excommunicate, expel, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humiliate, impute shame to, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, pillory, purge, put to shame, read out of, reflect discredit upon, release, remove, remove from office, replace, reproach, retire, sack, separate forcibly, shame, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone
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