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OPERATE ON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perform surgery on
Example:
The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life
Synonyms:
operate; operate on
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "operate on" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "operate on"):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
face-lift; lift (perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face)
trephine (operate on with a trephine)
venesect (practice venesection)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Did he operate on his foot?
