ABACINATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes

Example:

The prisoners were abacinated by their captors

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "abacinate" is one way to...):

blind (make blind by putting the eyes out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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