English > operate on: 1 sense > verb 1, bodyMeaning | Perform surgery on. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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Model | Did he operate on his foot? |
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Synonym | operate |
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Category | medicine, practice of medicine | The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries |
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Narrower | face-lift, lift | Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face |
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sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
trephine | operate on with a trephine |
venesect | practice venesection |
Broader | treat, care for | Provide treatment for |
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Spanish | intervenir, operar |
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Catalan | intervenir, operar |
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