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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of transect.

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Examples

  • So if the body was -- if the head was transected -- in other words, cut off -- you can see sometimes cuts on the bone.

    CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2008 2008

  • Try telling that to the nine-year-old who is wheelchair bound and incontinent after his spinal cord was transected by a lap belt.

    Boosters Can Prevent Children's Disability 2012

  • “The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • “The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • One of Lewis's finely penned pages, transected diagonally by a beautiful sketch of a fish, is presented as evidence that he did.

    Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011

  • “The bullet that entered her shoulder”—he touched the spot on his own shoulder to indicate—“transected the medial cord of the brachial plexus—”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Nine years ago it was just private land transected by a highway.

    Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010

  • Nine years ago it was just private land transected by a highway.

    Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010

  • Both the reserve and the national park are transected by national highways and approximately 100 ha of land in the extreme north-west of the reserve is occupied by a military base.

    Iguazú National Park, Argentina 2008

  • They walked down steep alleyways, scooter-torn and transected by wind-ruffled tapestries of clothing and bedding, and on every other corner there lurked a little shrine, with candles and doilies and the lifesize effigy of a saint, a martyr, a haggard cleric.

    'The Pregnant Widow' 2010

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