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unfrock
verb as in depose
verb as in dismiss
verb as in pink slip
Weak matches
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- defrock
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- drop
- fire
- furlough
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give walking papers
- give warning
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- let out
- oust
- pension
- put away
- recall
- release
- retire
- sack
- send packing
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- suspend
- terminate
- turn away
- unseat
- wash out
Example Sentences
An unfrocked priest seeks redemption by performing an exorcism on a young woman.
For too long, the pope has failed to act on his words that child abusers have no role within the church, as evidenced by the church’s reluctance to unfrock priests for such crimes.
On the death of her first husband, she married an unfrocked priest and, when he died, she set up with a civil servant, 24 years her junior.
"We 're not going to unfrock you, Hunter," said he, gayly, in dismissing him.
Hold your tongue; it was I who made you Metropolitan, and I unfrock you.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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