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abacinate

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9 lettersPronunciation /əbˈæsɪneɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aaabceintStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes

Word origin

From Late Latin abacinātus, perfect passive participle of abacinō; possibly formed from ab (“off”) + bacīnum (“a basin”) or bacīnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (“to dazzle”).

Used in a sentence

  • "You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."
  • Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
  • Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.

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