ablates

We have found lemma(root) word of ablates : ablate.

Definitions


[əˈbleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- remove (body tissue) surgically
(e.g: therapeutic intervention to ablate existing cancer cells)

- gradually remove material from or erode (a surface or object) by melting, evaporation, frictional action, etc., or erode (material) in this way
(e.g: drying winds slowly ablate away the ice)


Phrases:

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




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