decitizenize
English
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editdecitizenize (third-person singular simple present decitizenizes, present participle decitizenizing, simple past and past participle decitizenized)
- (transitive) To strip of citizenship.
- 1863, Edward Bates, On Citizenship:
- We have no law — as the French have — to decitizenize a citizen.
References
edit- “decitizenize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.