disroof
English
Etymology
dis- + roof
Verb
disroof (third-person singular simple present disroofs, present participle disroofing, simple past and past participle disroofed)
- (transitive) To remove the roof from; to unroof.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Ghastly Châteaus stare on you by the wayside; disroofed, diswindowed[.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disroof in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)