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DECLAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does declaw mean?
• DECLAW (verb)
The verb DECLAW has 1 sense:
1. remove the claws from
Familiarity information: DECLAW used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they declaw ... he / she / it declaws
Past simple: declawed
Past participle: declawed
-ing form: declawing
... he / she / it declaws Past simple: declawed
Past participle: declawed
-ing form: declawing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the claws from
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
declaw a cat
Hypernyms (to "declaw" is one way to...):
take off (take away or remove)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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