ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Decap

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /diːˈkæp/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Decap is a verb meaning To remove a cap.

Meaning

To remove a cap.

More Meanings

  1. To change an uppercase letter to lowercase; to decapitalize.

Example Sentences

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.
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.

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