What is another word for defrock?
1310 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪfɹˈɒk], [ dɪfɹˈɒk], [ d_ɪ_f_ɹ_ˈɒ_k]
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Synonyms for Defrock:
n.
• Other relevant words: (noun)- displume,
- sack,
- boot,
- excommunicate,
- depose,
- disgrace,
- let out,
- lay,
- suspend,
- degrade,
- give the gate,
- expel,
- deconsecrate,
- ease,
- bloodletting,
- Unchurch,
- bump,
- ouster,
- make redundant,
- replace,
- bounce,
- discredit,
- dethrone,
- debase,
- pink slip,
- strip,
- bring into discredit,
- displace,
- deplume,
- pension,
- deposition,
- deprive,
- dooce,
- dishonor,
- pink slip,
- liquidate,
- marching orders,
- turn out,
- Disemploy,
- let go,
- termination,
- relieve,
- bust,
- cast reproach upon,
- surplus,
- turn off,
- elbow,
- strip of office,
- release,
- retrench,
- disbar,
- wastage,
- constructive dismissal,
- reproach,
- Discrown,
- shakeout,
- firing,
- drum,
- demote,
- pension off,
- unsaddle,
- give the ax,
- bring low,
- invalid 1,
- chop,
- notice,
- remove from office,
- separate forcibly,
- bring shame upon,
- impute shame to,
- layoff,
- ear,
- shame,
- kick,
- axe,
- delayering,
- can,
- furlough,
- Disenthrone,
- pasture,
- strip of rank,
- kick upstairs,
- superannuate,
- unseat,
- fire,
- retrenchment,
- put to shame,
- pillory,
- grass,
- heave-ho,
- overthrow,
- reflect discredit upon,
- read out of,
- purge,
- severance,
- break,
- oust,
- slash-and-burn,
- dismissal,
- unfrock,
- strike,
- drum out,
- retire,
- cashier,
- Unthrone,
- discharge,
- humiliate,
- push,
- removal,
- lay off,
- walking papers,
- pay,
- sacking,
- remove.
v.
• dismiss (verb)- put away,
- give warning,
- shut out,
- drop,
- boot out,
- terminate,
- give notice to,
- deselect,
- turn away,
- wash out,
- depone,
- disqualify,
- send packing,
- give the heave-ho,
- recall,
- ax,
- kick out,
- give walking papers,
- shelve,
- pink-slip,
- Disfrock,
- impeach.
- injure,
- exile,
- oppress,
- batter,
- chasten,
- cuff,
- teach a lesson,
- discipline,
- give a going over,
- maltreat,
- abuse,
- train,
- scourge,
- debar,
- knock about,
- paddle,
- hurt,
- correct,
- spank,
- switch,
- misuse,
- harm,
- rough up,
- attend to,
- beat up,
- crack down on,
- give the works,
- fine,
- lash,
- blacklist,
- immure,
- beat,
- chastise,
- flog,
- castigate,
- whip,
- rap knuckles,
- reprove,
- sentence,
- execute,
- lecture,
- slap wrist,
- do in,
- incarcerate,
- throw the book at.
Other synonyms:
• dismiss- lets go,
- washes out,
- deselecting,
- Pensioning,
- Furloughed,
- booting out,
- turned away,
- letting out,
- defrocking,
- give heave-ho,
- Furloughing,
- Pensioned,
- unfrocking,
- turns away,
- unfrocked,
- turning away,
- letting go,
- washed out,
- defrocked,
- washing out,
- give the heave ho,
- Shelving.
- despoil,
- measure,
- walk out,
- batsman,
- chuck out,
- drop down,
- caravan,
- permutation,
- overrule,
- supergrass,
- mop up,
- swear,
- emit,
- get-up-and-go,
- affect,
- finish,
- abase,
- recollect,
- throw out,
- allay,
- vex,
- bankrupt,
- mortify,
- vanquish,
- conclusion,
- run,
- rest,
- secular,
- check,
- breaking,
- lock,
- excise,
- pull back,
- cane,
- take to heart,
- dabble,
- press,
- go to sleep,
- desecrate,
- thrust,
- detriment,
- put,
- thump,
- call on the carpet,
- prorogue,
- cultivate,
- buy off,
- indispose,
- neutralise,
- simplicity,
- ill-treat,
- outcome,
- strip down,
- separate,
- crowd,
- beef,
- very well,
- kick about,
- shitlist,
- beat out,
- stop,
- get out,
- wash off,
- fall in,
- stave off,
- discard,
- muster out,
- come apart,
- dip,
- flight strip,
- toddle,
- reproof,
- clear,
- scold,
- bill,
- luggage compartment,
- think,
- simpleness,
- light,
- give the sack,
- revilement,
- seat,
- clapperclaw,
- ignite,
- handlock,
- kindle,
- counterbalance,
- airstrip,
- evoke,
- bailiwick,
- battue,
- cool,
- provoke,
- spillage,
- find,
- tell on,
- spread out,
- extra,
- cast,
- keister,
- omit,
- transposition,
- trunk,
- rally,
- supervene upon,
- criminate,
- flame,
- founder,
- hark back,
- let go of,
- bagging,
- ending,
- complete,
- reveal,
- strike down,
- study,
- shed,
- bring down,
- bitch,
- rape,
- give notice,
- damp,
- educate,
- cease,
- misdirect,
- demoralise,
- ass,
- dilute,
- crusade,
- curse,
- contumely,
- kicking,
- wash,
- subject area,
- eyelash,
- nonplus,
- prepare,
- throw off,
- assume,
- welt,
- circumvent,
- endpoint,
- flip-flop,
- fault,
- attend,
- blast,
- salvage,
- exquisitely,
- perplex,
- cadence,
- mystify,
- empty,
- energy,
- pull,
- stretch,
- totter,
- promote,
- infract,
- turn in,
- trail,
- cast aside,
- venting,
- doom,
- peel,
- smart,
- remotion,
- put aside,
- shunning,
- going,
- speech,
- go,
- deflect,
- break-dance,
- crawl in,
- aim,
- go off,
- condemnation,
- rebound,
- auricle,
- impinge on,
- rout,
- judgment of dismissal,
- bone,
- retrieve,
- upbraid,
- enkindle,
- lather,
- attaint,
- cast out,
- clean,
- assuage,
- place,
- remonstrate,
- bewilder,
- advertise,
- discount,
- fulfill,
- put out,
- pasturage,
- come to,
- ley,
- metre,
- deportee,
- defer,
- buttocks,
- utter,
- nemesis,
- chide,
- knock,
- sack up,
- refuse,
- lea,
- transfer,
- reject,
- cartoon strip,
- backside,
- exempt,
- butt,
- brush off,
- off,
- gaol,
- tympan,
- burst,
- dismantle,
- drive,
- punish,
- note,
- fundament,
- arc,
- hold over,
- hind end,
- give someone her walking papers,
- wash away,
- denounce,
- flak,
- pip,
- flip,
- dodder,
- upset,
- ravage,
- puke,
- raid,
- give way,
- whomp,
- even up,
- press release,
- purgation,
- blister,
- railroad train,
- arise,
- neglect,
- unload,
- alleviate,
- tucker out,
- placard,
- conviction,
- tear,
- flop,
- bar,
- sort out,
- inflammation,
- agitate,
- drum up,
- carry through,
- dismiss,
- ill-use,
- take over,
- expatriation,
- charge,
- raise,
- penalise,
- broke,
- burn down,
- unbosom,
- insult,
- take away,
- binge,
- outpouring,
- curtailment,
- light upon,
- ward off,
- lay waste to,
- terror,
- prison-breaking,
- pot,
- posterior,
- bottom,
- ruin,
- labour,
- alloy,
- ignominy,
- wait on,
- chemise,
- overreach,
- bring out,
- observance,
- gearing,
- prisonbreak,
- interruption,
- vilification,
- coin,
- switching,
- discover,
- wear out,
- have words,
- waddle,
- devote,
- split,
- fix,
- assoil,
- attack,
- snap off,
- outsmart,
- ante up,
- baste,
- carry out,
- geological fault,
- spite,
- break out,
- lambast,
- bend,
- shout,
- exculpate,
- tack,
- exhaust,
- break off,
- return,
- trade,
- reave,
- set down,
- expend,
- give pink slip,
- electric discharge,
- ignore,
- disgorge,
- laic,
- give,
- leap,
- crucify,
- flagellate,
- final result,
- remuneration,
- ticktock,
- gaolbreak,
- set back,
- tone ending,
- bed,
- pocket,
- outlet,
- transportation,
- judgment of conviction,
- devastate,
- pillage,
- slash,
- time out,
- freeze,
- impairment,
- thrill,
- strip show,
- polish off,
- eatage,
- flagellum,
- paper bag,
- manacle,
- profane,
- pluck,
- let off,
- bring up,
- shell,
- make up,
- savage,
- open fire,
- metal drum,
- miss,
- bear on,
- mistreat,
- finely,
- reminiscence,
- jounce,
- happen,
- fight,
- get rid of,
- pulsation,
- go bad,
- regorge,
- expunge,
- rack up,
- put behind bars,
- assist,
- stick,
- disbelieve,
- arse,
- direct,
- drop off,
- groom,
- suspension,
- drip,
- blow,
- split up,
- acquittance,
- party whip,
- head off,
- boat paddle,
- jailbreak,
- field of study,
- kvetch,
- fell,
- wagon train,
- liberate,
- penalize,
- undress,
- recollection,
- cut,
- bloodshed,
- bane,
- earnings,
- quit,
- handout,
- ardor,
- accomplish,
- put to death,
- browse,
- deteriorate,
- avoidance,
- disregard,
- put up,
- alright,
- pulse,
- pulsate,
- bead,
- meter,
- surplusage,
- recoil,
- worst,
- extrusion,
- rap,
- wear,
- severing,
- echo,
- bank clerk,
- poster,
- put back,
- acquit,
- dispose,
- derangement,
- lock away,
- loot,
- overlook,
- chagrin,
- fall apart,
- prat,
- foray,
- load,
- tug,
- tuck away,
- leave out,
- neutralize,
- damage,
- electrical switch,
- regurgitate,
- kick back,
- plain,
- exonerate,
- gibbet,
- injury,
- lighten,
- tail,
- weaken,
- desolate,
- tucker,
- locoweed,
- female chest,
- attain,
- tick,
- turn up,
- fling,
- spue,
- musical rhythm,
- corrupt,
- repose,
- transgress,
- throw up,
- collide with,
- relief,
- come upon,
- call up,
- smoke,
- mulct,
- lighting,
- gage,
- still,
- shine,
- slugger,
- complain,
- adjourn,
- comment,
- disclose,
- end point,
- flush,
- falling out,
- bathroom,
- bump off,
- terminus,
- sess,
- mint,
- postpone,
- coach,
- cut down,
- eject,
- open frame,
- excess,
- outrage,
- rout out,
- larrup,
- scramble,
- departure,
- burn,
- relinquish,
- retreat,
- expiration,
- outwit,
- breakage,
- rebuke,
- rat,
- spike,
- derriere,
- dangle,
- avoid,
- rear,
- jail,
- pose,
- threat,
- pastureland,
- ignition,
- rotate,
- plunder,
- remember,
- notification,
- talking to,
- lock up,
- chop shot,
- be sick,
- shake off,
- waste,
- part,
- cat,
- fall,
- privy,
- disrepute,
- chew up,
- get,
- fail,
- exchange,
- lambaste,
- right,
- quetch,
- nimiety,
- bulge,
- take down,
- deport,
- excrescence,
- break of serve,
- barrel,
- amaze,
- comic strip,
- observe,
- sick,
- dismission,
- give out,
- unfit,
- put down,
- admonish,
- purging,
- hammock,
- redress,
- arouse,
- preempt,
- fend off,
- outfox,
- subject field,
- take a hop,
- deprave,
- swot,
- call down,
- stony-broke,
- throw,
- suppress,
- pity,
- potty,
- remand,
- smash,
- bounciness,
- teller,
- get up,
- sacque,
- relegate,
- ill-treatment,
- let loose,
- nates,
- rear end,
- crush,
- run into,
- wounded,
- emission,
- switch off,
- free,
- offsaddle,
- respite,
- intermission,
- bang,
- thrum,
- gripe,
- advertize,
- striptease,
- publish,
- break down,
- secrete,
- loss,
- chance upon,
- toss away,
- decline,
- yield,
- protuberance,
- vomit,
- unclothe,
- denude,
- power train,
- commode,
- ok,
- put over,
- tail end,
- bear,
- bone up,
- dumbfound,
- mark,
- kick around,
- deplumate,
- geartrain,
- switch over,
- give the axe,
- shut up,
- rump,
- pushing,
- hack,
- call back,
- conk out,
- pretermit,
- strickle,
- downsizing,
- snap,
- squawk,
- range,
- disruption,
- flack,
- flap,
- shit,
- quiver,
- absent,
- honk,
- sink,
- tuck in,
- redundant,
- shop,
- wound,
- lecturing,
- change over,
- scathe,
- overleap,
- public lecture,
- supplant,
- chopper,
- ballad,
- take,
- unloose,
- turn down,
- persecute,
- set aside,
- poke,
- unloosen,
- scratch,
- hitter,
- move out,
- easiness,
- table,
- hit the sack,
- whiplash,
- vent,
- subject,
- mug up,
- net,
- perform,
- cliff,
- bloodbath,
- canful,
- happen upon,
- berate,
- discase,
- break in,
- spew,
- scald,
- bare,
- turnup,
- obviate,
- civilise,
- elevate,
- turn,
- swing,
- firing off,
- deportation,
- gear,
- serve,
- rag,
- demean,
- membranophone,
- card,
- substitute,
- supersede,
- observation,
- exit,
- slump,
- sound off,
- rise,
- passing,
- iron heel,
- undo,
- stern,
- hit the hay,
- tooshie,
- purify,
- pearl,
- prison term,
- lav,
- ten-strike,
- expelling,
- maltreatment,
- hump,
- replacement,
- draw back,
- show someone the door,
- smasher,
- reverberate,
- uncover,
- pay back,
- save,
- rifle,
- chew out,
- fanny,
- drumfish,
- swap,
- rhythm,
- vitiate,
- move back,
- button,
- comfort,
- take out,
- kip down,
- set,
- pinna,
- cubitus,
- action,
- fulfil,
- bouncing,
- strap,
- tush,
- go against,
- bruise,
- dinge,
- pound,
- turf out,
- subdue,
- widen,
- develop,
- encounter,
- give away,
- civilize,
- bum,
- avert,
- stag,
- even off,
- ardour,
- facilitate,
- resile,
- spring,
- even out,
- saltation,
- free fall,
- condemn,
- clobber,
- beatnik,
- sackful,
- skint,
- give someone the ax,
- reverse,
- position,
- lag,
- discontinue,
- dodging,
- lock in,
- chance,
- soften,
- cram,
- crop,
- crapper,
- pervert,
- slip,
- automobile trunk,
- tame,
- electric arc,
- pain,
- elbow joint,
- fervour,
- take up,
- whisk,
- assault,
- swelling,
- hunky-dory,
- keep out,
- murder,
- excuse,
- put to sleep,
- dope,
- substitution,
- resultant,
- iron boot,
- shift,
- bound,
- shut,
- kick downstairs,
- cilium,
- ache,
- gravel,
- incriminate,
- dribble,
- demoralize,
- leaping,
- field,
- ticket,
- dispatch,
- recess,
- leach,
- dissolve,
- spend,
- liberation,
- send away,
- rail,
- jaw,
- flatten,
- prove,
- work stoppage,
- bawl out,
- anguish,
- give someone the pink slip,
- elicit,
- gibbosity,
- sac,
- pause,
- expose,
- upgrade,
- rupture,
- supernumerary,
- carrier bag,
- break up,
- weakened,
- black book,
- all right,
- work over,
- offend,
- suffer,
- erupt,
- waiver,
- denudate,
- stupefy,
- splay,
- expiry,
- force out,
- go to bed,
- landing strip,
- grind away,
- good luck,
- interrupt,
- grass over,
- collapse,
- capitulum,
- impoverish,
- tin can,
- string,
- impress,
- issue,
- compensate,
- posting,
- result,
- withdraw,
- driblet,
- school,
- come back,
- palliate,
- bunk,
- pay up,
- baffle,
- remit,
- interchange,
- tap,
- deposit,
- okay,
- jug,
- misapply,
- protrusion,
- stone-broke,
- salve,
- campaign,
- tin,
- kindling,
- brush aside,
- electric switch,
- disrobe,
- wage,
- suffering,
- callback,
- graze,
- gap,
- flame up,
- amercement,
- upchuck,
- shut away,
- fall upon,
- cheapen,
- remedy,
- violate,
- puzzle,
- labor,
- degenerate,
- uncase,
- correction,
- push button,
- fizzle,
- jut,
- toss,
- come across,
- point out,
- gibbousness,
- ejector,
- unwrap,
- fervency,
- fervor,
- die,
- flummox,
- cave in,
- talk,
- exclude,
- better,
- strike out,
- acknowledge,
- distress,
- green goddess,
- break away,
- round,
- take aim,
- rectify,
- move,
- give someone the gate,
- salary,
- lavatory,
- buns,
- knock off,
- expatriate,
- prominence,
- trauma,
- ransack,
- stool,
- drop curtain,
- weed,
- debauch,
- spill,
- vomit up,
- redeem,
- advance,
- put off,
- intermit,
- reboot,
- brake drum,
- happy chance,
- rain out,
- recede,
- throne,
- take to task,
- fervidness,
- spare,
- detect,
- sack out,
- bout,
- dethronement,
- ticktack,
- toilet,
- spark,
- chuck,
- override,
- accuse,
- heartbeat,
- betray,
- give up,
- unfreeze,
- come out,
- ill-usage,
- swop,
- breach,
- unblock,
- reprimand,
- chop up,
- get around,
- chance on,
- can buoy,
- handcuff,
- give the bounce,
- informality,
- fracture,
- slay,
- sens,
- the boot,
- delicately,
- drop-off,
- drop cloth,
- throw away,
- grazing land,
- humble,
- forage,
- snitch,
- resign,
- relaxation,
- crack,
- superfluous,
- break dance,
- cast away,
- ousting,
- freeing,
- usher out,
- devolve,
- human elbow,
- remark,
- uprise,
- overturn,
- imprison,
- sanctify,
- ricochet,
- alternate,
- hindquarters,
- step,
- adulterate,
- end,
- change,
- supererogatory,
- call in,
- flaming,
- pull away,
- adjust,
- trounce,
- pouch,
- rift,
- skunk,
- thong,
- cast off,
- wash up,
- give someone his or her walking papers,
- barf,
- objurgate,
- dislodge,
- loose,
- fuel,
- ravish,
- scour,
- bushed,
- splash around,
- all in,
- force,
- temper,
- breakout,
- coggle,
- divulge,
- behind,
- retch,
- show the door,
- condition,
- push aside,
- toss out,
- blackguard,
- dampen,
- dress down,
- time,
- rush,
- dead,
- subvert,
- let on,
- buffet,
- recrudesce.
How to use "Defrock" in context?
The term "defrock" refers to a clergyman who has been removed from the clerical state, often due to a conviction of a felony or other moral turpitude. It is also used less frequently to refer to a priest who has been dismissed from ecclesiastical status. In both cases, the individual is no longer able to wear clerical clothing or take part in any clerical functions. In some cases, the individual may be able to petition to have their name restored to the clergy.
Homophones for Defrock:
- depress, deep-freeze, diverge, diverse, d.p.r.k., Dita Bark, debris, due process, deepfreeze, De Vries, dobrich, divorce, divorcee, debark, diaphoresis, dippers, daybreak, DPRK, dibrach, divers, dvorak, deep freeze, diaper rash, devries, dive brake.
Hyponym for Defrock:
Word of the Day
hooing
- Synonyms:
- Chambering.
