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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

deball en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From de- + ball.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.
    • And that's how the captain's platoon found him later that afternoon, strung up like aside of beef, dripping blood from asshole and crotch, half-dead, and de-balled, the severed nuts lying in the dust at his feet. 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deballs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
deballed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deballed Tense=Past lexicographic
deballing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
de-ball alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

deballer

Translations (1)

es despelotar (remove balls, emasculate)