ablates

Meaning of ablates

verb, 3rd person present
  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 ablates

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

ab-lates

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • ablates is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of ablates

astable, satable

Words that rhyme with ablates

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