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ABACINATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abacinate mean?
• ABACINATE (verb)
The verb ABACINATE has 1 sense:
1. blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes
Familiarity information: ABACINATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
The prisoners were abacinated by their captors
Hypernyms (to "abacinate" is one way to...):
blind (make blind by putting the eyes out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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