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deoculated

deoculated is the simple past and past participle of deoculate.

Meaning of deoculate

Verb

deoculate (third-person singular simple present deoculates, present participle deoculating, simple past and past participle deoculated)

  1. To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).
    • "Lear" and "We Come to the River" have much in common, beyond the scene of deoculating the straitjacketed protagonist: images of brutality, executions, and jubilation; of soldiers starting to question their orders ("They make you do things no one should even have to dream of and cheer you when...1976, The New Yorker - Volume 52, Part 5, page 188

Questions about deoculated

What is deoculated the simple past and past participle of?
Deoculated is the simple past and past participle of deoculate.

Words near deoculated in the dictionary

  1. deoccupied
  2. deoccupies
  3. deoccupy
  4. deoccupying
  5. deoculate
  6. deoculated
  7. deoculates
  8. deoculating
  9. deodand
  10. deodands
  11. deodar

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