desilverv.
/diːˈsɪlvə/ transitive. To deprive of its silver, remove the silver from.
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1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1886 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. I. ii. 9 The over-cleaned and de-silvered plated pot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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v.1864- give a person the rough edge of one's tongue
- give a person the runaround
- give a person the rush
- give a person the sack
- give a person the screaming habdabs
- give a person the shits
- give a person the shoot
- give a person the sick
- give a person the silent treatment
- give a person the tomtits
- give a person the verbal
- give a person the verbals
- give a person the wall
- give a person the works
- give a person the worst
- give a person the worst of it
- give a person the worst on it
- give a person their cards
- give a person thing) the fingers
- give a person time
- give a person to believe, know, note, understand
- give a person to eat
- give a person what for
- give a person's respects to
- give a piece of one's mind