decrown

English

Alternative forms

• de-crown

Etymology

From de- +‎ crown, or French découronner.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈkɹaʊn/

Verb

decrown (third-person singular simple present decrowns, present participle decrowning, simple past and past participle decrowned)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.

   Synonyms: discrown, uncrown

   • 1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams:

     the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings

2. (transitive, dentistry) To decoronate (a tooth).
3. (transitive) To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
4. (transitive, figurative) To deprive of supremacy or exaltedness.
   • 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 70:

     Laughter for laughter's sake and the allied mocking of social values and decrowning of all dogmatic forms of authority this entails.

Further reading

• “decrown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• crowned, Crowden