unduke
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -uːk
Verb edit
unduke (third-person singular simple present undukes, present participle unduking, simple past and past participle unduked)
- (transitive) To deprive of dukedom.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, A New Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough:
- are they about to take the garter from him? to unprince, unduke him?
References edit
- “unduke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.