verb

• Remove feathers from (a bird).

  ‘The Austrian eagle was only to escape from one enemy, to be displumed by another.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The story is that the jackdaw was very quietly displumed.’
  • ‘The process of displuming the birds is simple enough.’
  • ‘The storm displumes my wings.’
  • ‘The Owl will hoot that cannot sing, Spite will displume the muse's wing.’

  Synonyms

  remove the feathers from, strip of feathers