decapitalize in British English
or decapitalise (diːˈkæpɪtəˌlaɪz)
verb (transitive)1. to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
the extent to which a corporate can decapitalize itself will depend on its free reserves
2. to downgrade (a city) from the position of capital city
3. to alter the capitalization, usually from an initial capital letter to a lower-case letter, in a written statement
Depending upon whether you're British or whether you're US, you'll either capitalizethe word 'the' or you'll decapitalize it.