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deball

/diːbɔl/

deball verb: to remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.

Verb

deball (third-person singular simple present deballs, present participle deballing, simple past and past participle deballed)

  1. (transitive) To remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.
    • And that's how the captain's platoon found him later that afternoon, strung up like aside of beef, dripping blood from asshole and crotch, half-dead, and de-balled, the severed nuts lying in the dust at his feet.1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32

Forms of deball

third-person singular presentdeballs
present participledeballing
past participledeballed
pastdeballed
alternative formde-ball

Origin of deball

From de- + ball.

Words formed from deball

Questions about deball

What does deball mean?
Deball means to remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.
What part of speech is deball?
Deball is a verb.
How do you pronounce deball?
Deball is pronounced /diːbɔl/.
What is the past tense of deball?
The past tense of deball is deballed.

Words near deball in the dictionary

  1. debaggings
  2. debags
  3. Debal
  4. debalancer
  5. debalancers
  6. deball
  7. deballast
  8. deballasted
  9. deballasting
  10. deballasts
  11. deballed

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