disroof

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verb

To unroof; to remove the roof.

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Meanings

verbdisroof (third-person singular simple present disroofs, present participle disroofing, simple past and past participle disroofed)

present singular third person disroofs · participle present disroofing · participle past disroofed · past disroofed

  1. transitiveTo unroof; to remove the roof.

    Ghastly châteaus stare on you by the wayside; disroofed, diswindowed[.]

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 340

Origin

From dis- + roof.

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