Usually means: Remove the shrimp's intestinal tract.
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  1. devein: Merriam-Webster
  2. devein: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devein: Collins English Dictionary
  4. devein: Vocabulary.com
  5. devein: Wordnik
  6. devein: Wiktionary
  7. devein: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. devein: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. devein: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. devein: Dictionary.com
  11. devein: FreeDictionary.org
  12. devein: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. devein: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp).

Similar:
deshell, dehull, eviscerate, desinew, viscerate, deseed, disembowel, degut, destem, draw, more...

Opposite:
vein, envein, veinless

Types:
with a spoon, with a knife, with a deveiner, more...

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Similar:
deshell, dehull, eviscerate, desinew, viscerate, deseed, disembowel, degut, destem, draw, more...

Opposite:
vein, envein, veinless

Types:
with a spoon, with a knife, with a deveiner, more...



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