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DECEREBRATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decerebrate mean?
• DECEREBRATE (verb)
The verb DECEREBRATE has 1 sense:
1. remove the cerebrum from (a human body)
Familiarity information: DECEREBRATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they decerebrate ... he / she / it decerebrates
Past simple: decerebrated
Past participle: decerebrated
-ing form: decerebrating
... he / she / it decerebrates Past simple: decerebrated
Past participle: decerebrated
-ing form: decerebrating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the cerebrum from (a human body)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "decerebrate" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Domain category:
surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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