🐔 To remove feathers 🏅 To take honors

to deplume

9.9

To pull the feathers off a bird before cooking

verb
/dɪˈplum/

Archaic

: desplumar

The cook began to deplume the duck before preparing it for dinner.

Examples

Don't deplume the turkey!
Farm hands deplumed the chickens as part of the butchering process.
She learned how to deplume game birds during her culinary training.
They will deplume the bird before cooking it.
In the processing plant, workers had to deplume the birds carefully to ensure the feathers were removed without damaging the meat.
Before cooking, the chef instructed his team to deplume the chickens to prepare them for roasting.
Farmers often deplume ducks and geese before their feathers are sold in markets for various uses.

Synonyms

to pluck

vsto deplume

26 5.6

To remove the feathers from a bird before cooking

is the neutral act without the culinary focus

to displume

vsto deplume

Archaic

9.9

To remove feathers from a bird

has identical meaning and is an alternative form

to deplumate

vsto deplume

Archaic

9.9

To remove the feathers from a bird

is the same action but a different variant form

Antonyms

to feather

1 3.7

To grow feathers, as young birds do

Surface Forms

deplume infinitive

deplumed past

deplumed past participle

depluming present participle

deplumes third person singular

Morphology

deplume = plume (transparent) = de + plume

If the learner knows 'plume' meaning 'feather' and the privative/removal sense of 'de-', the meaning 'remove feathers from' is directly compositional.

Etymology

The word deplume starts with de- 'remove' and ends with plume 'feather', so it literally means to take the feathers off a bird.