desplumar

v.

1 to pluck (ave).

Juana despluma gallinas Joan plucks hens.

2 to fleece (informal) (estafar).

3 to take all the money from, to rip off, to squeeze out.

El ladrón desplumó a mi padre The thief ripped off my father.

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desplumar

► verbo transitivo

1 (quitar las plumas) to pluck

2 figurado (estafar) to fleece, swindle

► verbo pronominal desplumarse

1 to moult

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1. VT

1) [+ ave] to pluck

2) * (=estafar) to fleece *

2.

See:

desplumarse

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verbo transitivo

a) <ave> to pluck

b) (fam) <persona> to fleece (colloq)

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= fleece.

Ex. Roosevelt's measures to prevent big business fleecing the public were popular and the election of 1904 provided him with the chance to run for president in his own right.

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verbo transitivo

a) <ave> to pluck

b) (fam) <persona> to fleece (colloq)

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= fleece.

Ex: Roosevelt's measures to prevent big business fleecing the public were popular and the election of 1904 provided him with the chance to run for president in his own right.

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desplumar [A1 ]

vt

1 ‹ave› to pluck

2 (fam); ‹persona› to fleece (colloq)

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desplumar (conjugate desplumar) verbo transitivo

a) ‹ave› to pluck

b) (fam) ‹persona› to fleece (colloq)

desplumar verbo transitivo
1 (un ave) to pluck
2 fam (dejar sin dinero) to clear out
'desplumar' also found in these entries:
English:
clean out
- pluck
- fleece

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desplumar vt

1. [ave] to pluck

2. Fam [dejar sin dinero] [en el juego] to clean out;

un ladrón me desplumó a thief took all my money

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desplumar

v/t

1 ave pluck

2 fig

fleece

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desplumar vt

: to pluck (a chicken, etc.)