DEGAUSS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they degauss ... he / she / it degausses

Past simple: degaussed

Past participle: degaussed

-ing form: degaussing

Meaning:

Make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)

Example:

they degaussed the ship

Synonyms:

degauss; demagnetise; demagnetize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

degaussing (the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field)