"deoculate" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1976, The New Yorker - Volume 52, Part 5, page 188",
          "text": "\"Lear\" and \"We Come to the River\" have much in common, beyond the scene of deoculating the straitjacketed protagonist: images of brutality, executions, and jubilation; of soldiers starting to question their orders (\"They make you do things no one should even have to dream of and cheer you when you've done it\"); of suffering; and — fleeting yet powerful in both works— of a peaceful family life in which children's questions are asked and answered about the marvels of the natural world, not about hardships and unhappiness.",
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          "ref": "1984, Books and Bookmen, page 25",
          "text": "Big Mac's cancer is miraculously cured when he deoculates one of the severed heads and sinks them both out in the bay.",
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          "ref": "2002, Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart",
          "text": "Sadly deoculated by his enemy, the Genji, after defeat, Kagekiyo lives out his days in darkened solitude, visited finally by his long-lost daughter.",
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          "ref": "2010, Nick Gevers, Marty Halpern, Is Anybody Out There?",
          "text": "“Did you know,” said Roderick, “that St. Lucy had beautiful eyes, so she was deoculated as a martyrdom? Her symbol is a pair of eyes on a saucer.”",
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        "To remove the eyes or their equivalent from"
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        "Charles Lamb (writer)",
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