| VERB | body | operate on, operate | perform surgery on |
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| Meaning | Perform surgery on. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | Did he operate on his foot? | |
| Synonym | operate | |
| 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 |
| Narrower | face-lift, lift | Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face |
| 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 |
| Spanish | intervenir, operar | |
| Catalan | intervenir, operar | |
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