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DECLAW
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they declaw ... he / she / it declaws
Past simple: declawed
Past participle: declawed
-ing form: declawing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the claws from
Example:
declaw a cat
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "declaw" is one way to...):
take off (take away or remove)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
