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deoculate

verb

  1. To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).

    Big Mac's cancer is miraculously cured when he deoculates one of the severed heads and sinks them both out in the bay.

Where it comes from

From de- + oculo- + -ate (verb-forming suffix); coined by Charles Lamb in a letter to William Wordsworth written in 1816: "Dorothy, I hear, has mounted spectacles; so deoculated two of your dearest relations in life. ".

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry deoculate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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