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unchurch

un·church [ un chúrch ] (past and past participle un·churched, present participle un·church·ing, 3rd person present singular un·church·es)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. excommunicate: to expel somebody from a church

2. declare to be no longer church: to remove the status of being a church from a building

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