Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of silver; extract the silver contained in: as, to desilver lead.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deprive of silver.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to remove the silver from some alloy
  • verb to remove the reflective backing from a mirror

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