decap
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
/diːˈkæp/
Definition of decap
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To remove a cap.
“Late one night in 1992, in Sudan's desiccated capital of Khartoum—the famous confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers, from where they blend together and flow deeply north, toward Egypt—an old Englishman broke Islamic law and decapped a bottle of Johnny Walker Red.”
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verb
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To remove a cap.
“Late one night in 1992, in Sudan's desiccated capital of Khartoum—the famous confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers, from where they blend together and flow deeply north, toward Egypt—an old Englishman broke Islamic law and decapped a bottle of Johnny Walker Red.”
- To remove a cap.
- To remove a cap.
- To remove a cap.
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To remove a cap.
“In October 1985 ARDC successfully decapped the AIF and was operating under the RDTE appropriation .”
“During 1995 the mark up on borrowed capital was around 17.5% which was decapped, consequently the banks started charging mark up rate as high as 24%.”
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To change an uppercase letter to lowercase; to decapitalize.
“In English this pronoun is always written with a capital letter, while "you", the second person singular, which in Russian out of courtesy we spell with a capital, is decapped in English.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From de- + cap.
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