ablate

(ă-blāt')

v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.

v.tr.

1. Medicine. To excise, amputate, or otherwise destroy the biological function of (a body tissue, for example).
2. To remove by erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.

v.intr.
To become ablated; undergo ablation.

[Back-formation from ABLATION.]

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(ă-blāt')
v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.

To remove or destroy the function of.

To remove, especially by cutting.

See words rhyming with "ablate."