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DEHORN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dehorn ... he / she / it dehorns
Past simple: dehorned
Past participle: dehorned
-ing form: dehorning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take the horns off (an animal)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dehorn" is one way to...):
take off (take away or remove)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dehorn"):
disbud (destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prevent the growth of horns of certain animals
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dehorn" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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