depetal en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + petal.
Meanings
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(transitive) To strip of petals.
Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.
2007 October 21, Amy Serafin, “The Louvre Now Accepts the Living”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| depetalled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| depetalled | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
| depetaling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| depetals | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| depetalling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| depetaled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| depetaled | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |