Recapitalize vs Decapitalize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between recapitalize and decapitalize

is that recapitalize is to change how a corporation is structured while decapitalize is to uncapitalize.

* (UK) recapitalise

To change how a corporation is structured.

* decapitalise

(decapitaliz)

To uncapitalize .

(legal) To remove (something's) status as a capital crime; to cause (something) to no longer be a capital crime.

* 2009 , Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: an American history , page 131:

In 1801 Connecticut decapitalized arson, but only where no victim's life had been placed in danger.

* uncapitalize