ablate

Meaning of ablate

verb
  1. remove (body tissue) surgically.
    therapeutic intervention to ablate existing cancer cells
  2. gradually remove material from or erode (a surface or object) by melting, evaporation, frictional action, etc., or erode (material) in this way.
    drying winds slowly ablate away the ice
    the laser beam can ablate solid rock from seven metres away

late 15th century (in the general sense ‘take away, remove’): from Latin ablat- ‘taken away’ (see ablation).

Information about ablate

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of ablate is: ablates.
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Hyphenation of ablate

ab-late

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • ablate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of ablate

balate

Words that rhyme with ablate

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