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operate on

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Verb1.operate on - perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
operate
practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
face-lift, lift - perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
trephine - operate on with a trephine
care for, treat - provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"
venesect - practice venesection


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If her manners have so great an influence on my resentful heart, you may judge how much more strongly they operate on Mr.
Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context
And if we consider that nevertheless there have been at all times certain officers whose duty it was to see that private buildings contributed to public ornament, the difficulty of reaching high perfection with but the materials of others to operate on, will be readily acknowledged.
Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene View in context
Don't let me have a woman who doesn't know who I am to operate on my beard to-morrow morning.
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