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deoculates

deoculates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 deoculates

What is deoculates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deoculates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deoculate.

Words near deoculates in the dictionary

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

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