Usually means: Remove or destroy by erosion.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablate: Merriam-Webster
  2. ablate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ablate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ablate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ablate: Vocabulary.com
  6. ablate: Wordnik
  7. ablate: Wiktionary
  8. ablate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ablate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ablate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ablate: Dictionary.com
  12. Ablate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. ablate: Rhymezone
  14. ablate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ablate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ablate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ablate: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ablate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ablate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Ablate: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Ablate: LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary
  7. ablate: Medical dictionary
  8. Ablate: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ablate)

verb:  (transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.

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