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trepan

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6 lettersPronunciation /tɹɪˈpæn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aenprtStarts with TEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery

Word origin

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

Used in a sentence

  • Julian was hastily revolving whether they ought, in prudence, to accept this man's invitation, aware, by experience, how many trepans, as they were then termed, were used betwixt two contending factions, […]
  • And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?
  • [H]e hoped he did not intend to make uſe of him to trepan a man to his ruin.

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