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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ablate.

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Examples

  • I wonder whether the steel will be cut through before the cut-off disk ablates away to nothing …

    Jog dial and vise clamps « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • I like nonnies and ablatives ablates, but Twats? no....

    Go Name Yourself Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Natural thought ablates in the anarchy of gushing water and order concedes to new disorder, while flooding stream breeds contempt until it is absorbed by sea.

    Motives Already Lost At Sea Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • June 20, 2006, 4: 42 am cards for bad credit history says: cards for bad credit history quadrupling ablates Angelina persevered summoned disobeying

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Daughter of “Madam Butterfly”: 2004

  • The procedure is known as lateral branch denervation and ablates the afferent nociceptive nerves that originate in the sacroiliac joint and surrounding tissue.

    unknown title 2011

  • The EP doctor makes a small incision in the groin, maneuvers the catheter into the heart, crosses the septum or center wall of the heart, and ablates the area around the pulmonary veins from inside the heart.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • The EP doctor makes a small incision in the groin, maneuvers the catheter into the heart, crosses the septum or center wall of the heart, and ablates the area around the pulmonary veins from inside the heart.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • The EP doctor makes a small incision in the groin, maneuvers the catheter into the heart, crosses the septum or center wall of the heart, and ablates the area around the pulmonary veins from inside the heart.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • First, they are actually _cold_, not hot -- they've been in the deep cold of outer space for eons and when they are heated up as the enter the earth's atmosphere, it's only a very thin rind that gets hot, and that mostly ablates away

    The Washington Note 2010

  • Balloon-based technology is novel because it ablates or blocks the conduction of atrial fibrillation AF in cardiac tissue through the use of a coolant rather than heat, which is delivered through a catheter.

    Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for First and Only Cryoballoon Ablation Treatment in the U.S. for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation - Yahoo! Finance 2010

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