delignate

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verb

To clear or strip of wood.

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Meanings

verbdelignate (third-person singular simple present delignates, present participle delignating, simple past and past participle delignated)

present singular third person delignates · participle present delignating · participle past delignated · past delignated

  1. raretransitiveTo clear or strip of wood.

    It moves me much his accusation of covetousness , dilapidating , or rather delignating , his bishopric

    1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
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    The machine gave a smoothly delignated ribbon, with small percentage of woody waste, save in a few stalks […]

    1893, Experiment Station Record, volume 4, page 430

    […] in concentrating the said delignated waste liquor and incorporating therewith quicklime to produce causticized substantially dry, powdered, lime organic material […]

    1919, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Origin

From de- + lign- + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

delignate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delignate

MLA

“delignate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delignate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “delignate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delignate.

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