defrock

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /diːˈfɹɒk/    美 /diˈfɹɑk/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To divest of a frock. literally
  2. To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy. figuratively
    — The defrocked priest may no longer perform rites.
  3. To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner. broadly
    — There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).

词形变化

defrocks present,singular,third-person defrocking participle,present defrocked participle,past defrocked past

词汇关系

近义词
disfrock unfrock

词源

From French défroquer, from dé- + froc. By surface analysis, de- + frock.
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