"lobotomize" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lobotomize.wav Forms: lobotomizes [present, singular, third-person], lobotomizing [participle, present], lobotomized [participle, past], lobotomized [past]
Etymology: From lobotomy + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lobotomy|ize}} lobotomy + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} lobotomize (third-person singular simple present lobotomizes, present participle lobotomizing, simple past and past participle lobotomized)
  1. (transitive) To perform a lobotomy upon. Tags: transitive Translations (To perform a lobotomy): lobotomitzar (Catalan), lobotomiseren (Dutch), lobotomeren (Dutch), lobotomiser (French), lobotomizar (Galician), lobotomisieren (German), lobotomizzare (Italian), lobotomizar (Portuguese), lobotomizar (Spanish), lobotomera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-lobotomize-en-verb-PX9jXbPE Disambiguation of 'To perform a lobotomy': 98 2
  2. (transitive, figurative) To remove the vitality or intelligence from. Tags: figuratively, transitive Categories (topical): Surgery
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: lobotomise (english: non-Oxford British English) Derived forms: lobotomization, lobotomizer, nonlobotomized

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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