Usually means: Remove from priestly office formally.
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  1. defrock: Merriam-Webster
  2. defrock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defrock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defrock: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Defrock, defrock: Wordnik
  7. defrock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defrock: Wiktionary
  9. defrock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defrock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defrock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defrock: Dictionary.com
  13. Defrock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. defrock: Rhymezone
  15. defrock: FreeDictionary.org
  16. defrock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. defrock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. defrock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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(Note: See defrocked as well.)

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verb:  (literally) To divest of a frock.
verb:  (figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
verb:  (by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.

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