ABACINATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes

Example:

The prisoners were abacinated by their captors

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "abacinate" is one way to...):

blind (make blind by putting the eyes out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody