decap
/diːˈkæp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To change an uppercase letter to lowercase; to decapitalize.
Example Sentences
- "Late one night in 1992, in Sudan's desiccated capital of Khartoum—the famous confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers, from where they blend together and flow deeply north, toward Egypt—an old Englishman broke Islamic law and decapped a bottle of Johnny Walker Red."
- "In October 1985 ARDC successfully decapped the AIF and was operating under the RDTE appropriation ."
- "During 1995 the mark up on borrowed capital was around 17.5% which was decapped, consequently the banks started charging mark up rate as high as 24%."
- "In English this pronoun is always written with a capital letter, while "you", the second person singular, which in Russian out of courtesy we spell with a capital, is decapped in English."
Etymology
From de- + cap.