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CIRCUMCISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys

Example:

During the bris, the baby boy is circumcised

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

"Circumcise" entails doing...:

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

circumcision (the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males)

circumcision (the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut the skin over the clitoris

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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