Usually means: Surgical removal of foreskin tissue.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumcise: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumcise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumcise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumcise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumcise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Circumcise, circumcise: Wordnik
  7. circumcise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. circumcise: Wiktionary
  9. circumcise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. circumcise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. circumcise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. circumcise: Dictionary.com
  13. circumcise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Circumcise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Circumcise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. circumcise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. circumcise: Rhymezone
  18. Circumcise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. circumcise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. circumcise: FreeDictionary.org
  21. circumcise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. circumcise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. circumcise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumcise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumcise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. circumcise: Medical dictionary

(Note: See circumcised as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
verb:  (sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
verb:  (military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.

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