Etymology

écrasement

Today it means: The operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment. Full definition →

French écrasement
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  1. French · borrowed fromécrasement“crushing”
  2. English todayécrasement

Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”).

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