chemo
UK/ˈkiːməʊ//ˈkimoʊ/
chemo is the clipping of chemotherapy.
Meaning of chemotherapy
Noun
chemotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural chemotherapies)
- Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
- chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
Verb
chemo (third-person singular simple present chemos, present participle chemoing, simple past and past participle chemoed)
- To treat with chemotherapy.
- We chemoed the tumor in the leg down by 92 percent, and the fourteen in her lungs vanished.2015, Charley Fish, Insuring Death
Forms of chemo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chemos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chemos |
| present participle | chemoing |
| past participle | chemoed |
| past | chemoed |
Words formed from chemo
Phrases with chemo
Words that rhyme with chemo
Questions about chemo
- What does chemo mean?
- Chemo means to treat with chemotherapy.
- What is chemo the clipping of?
- Chemo is the clipping of chemotherapy.
- What part of speech is chemo?
- Chemo is a verb.
- How do you pronounce chemo?
- Chemo is pronounced /ˈkiːməʊ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of chemo?
- The past tense of chemo is chemoed.
Words near chemo in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chemo (page history and authors); chemotherapy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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