Dictionary

decrown en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /diːˈkɹaʊn/ (UK)

Etymology

From de- + crown, or French découronner.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
   • the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings 1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams:
2. (transitive) To decoronate (a tooth).
3. (transitive) To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To deprive of supremacy or exaltedness.
   • Laughter for laughter's sake and the allied mocking of social values and decrowning of all dogmatic forms of authority this entails. 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 70:

Forms

Synonyms

uncrown · discrown