| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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| (noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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| ablation | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: cutting out, excision, extirpation |
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| (noun) the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers | - |
| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
| ablaut | (noun) a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song) | - |
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| ablaze | (adjective) resembling flame in brilliance or color | - |
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| (adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: inflamed, reddened |
| (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: afire, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: aflame, aroused |