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ablate
(verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ablate (third-person singular simple present ablates, present participle ablating, simple past and past participle ablated)
(transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. [Late 15th century.]
(intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. [Mid 20th century.]
• Labate, tabela, tablea
Source: Wiktionary
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States