Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

decult

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: decult
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To dissuade (someone) or to become dissuaded from believing in a cult.

Example Sentences

"This is a long and crazy process being deculted but some day you will look back and think how could I have ever believed that junk."
"Finally, two El Shaddai healers associated with a local chapter are well known in the community for healing, exorcism, deculting, and counseling ."
"However, brother dear has set up some kind of 'deculting' process in some outskirts home. After several hours it's hopeless, Zaynab is angry to be deceived, and so is everyone else that Zaynab didn't cave to their more than persuasive arguments of coming back to the faith and giving up going back to America."
"I kind of feel sorry for her. She has Trump Derangement Syndrome and needs help. She needs to go to rehab to be deculted"
""So how, pray tell, did you decult?" She took a sip. "I mean, purely for theraphy research purposes, of course." She winked at me. "It's so weird. It's like, all of a sudden, I realized that this man was a nutjob. […]""

Etymology

From de- + cult.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Inflected Forms

decults (present, singular) deculting (participle, present) deculted (participle, past) deculted (past)

Questions

What does decult mean?: To dissuade (someone) or to become dissuaded from believing in a cult.
Where does decult come from?: From de- + cult.

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