English > incise: 1 sense > verb 1, contactMeaning | make an incision / incision into by carving or cutting. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Entailed by | scar, mark, pock, pit | mark with a scar |
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Narrower | girdle, deaden | cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients |
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groove | make a groove in, or provide with a groove |
notch | cut or make a notch into |
scratch, scrape, scratch up | cut the surface of |
slit | cut a slit into |
worry | lacerate by biting |
Broader | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
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Spanish | cortar, hacer una incisión, sajar |
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Adjectives | incisive | suitable for cutting or piercing |
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Nouns | incision | the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) |
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incision | a depression scratched or carved into a surface |
incisure | (anatomy) a notch or small hollow |