ablateEnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishablate /əˈbleɪt / ▸ verb [with object] 1 remove (body tissue) surgically: therapeutic intervention to ablate existing cancer cells. 2 gradually remove material from or erode (a surface or object) by melting, evaporation, frictional action, etc., or erode (material) in this way: drying winds slowly ablate away the ice the laser beam can ablate solid rock from seven metres away. – ORIGIN late 15th century (in the general sense ‘take away, remove’): from Latin ablat- ‘taken away’ (see ablation).
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