Deoculate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Deoculate is a verb meaning To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).
Meaning
To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).
Example Sentences
Big Mac's cancer is miraculously cured when he deoculates one of the severed heads and sinks them both out in the bay.
“Did you know,” said Roderick, “that St. Lucy had beautiful eyes, so she was deoculated as a martyrdom? Her symbol is a pair of eyes on a saucer.”
Sadly deoculated by his enemy, the Genji, after defeat, Kagekiyo lives out his days in darkened solitude, visited finally by his long-lost daughter.
Word Forms
- deoculates
- deoculating
- deoculated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exoculate, self-enucleate, deossify, withdraw, deoil, deoccupy.
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