ABLATE

ablate

(verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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.]

Anagrams

• Labate, tabela, tablea

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.

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