derank
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.
verb
To lower or remove achievements and skill level.
verb
To lower or remove an official ranking or accreditation.
verb
To lower the status or importance of
Example Sentences
- "In normal English speech one usually deranks "he should go" to "to go", as in "I told him where to go.""
- "In this language, syntactic sequences with identical subjects derank the second predicate into a subjunctive form, which is characterized by the presenece of a specific particle a and special rules for the placement of pronouns."
- "In this case, then, the infinitival morpheme functions more locally to simply derank the verb in the purpose clause."
- "These verbs – together with their NRM equivalents – are characterized by a construal which deranks the perceiver to a degree that it cannot even be imagined in the same clause."
- "This is not unexpected in subordinate clauses and might be considered a marginal means to derank a clause; the clause loses the freedom to contain any possible (pragmatically marked) structural configuration and gets restricted to pragmatically neutral content (cf. also Lehmann 1988: 195)."
- ""I remember one time," he said, brushing my boots aside, "when I had trouble like this with an M.O. He was going to have me arrested and deranked and marched out and so on and so on. Nothin' came of it.""
Etymology
From de- + rank.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de