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DEGAUSS
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they degauss ... he / she / it degausses
Past simple: degaussed
Past participle: degaussed
-ing form: degaussing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)
Example:
they degaussed the ship
Synonyms:
degauss; demagnetise; demagnetize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "degauss" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
degaussing (the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field)
