deoppilate

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verb

To deobstruct

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Meanings

verbdeoppilate (third-person singular simple present deoppilates, present participle deoppilating, simple past and past participle deoppilated)

present singular third person deoppilates · participle present deoppilating · participle past deoppilated · past deoppilated

  1. obsoleteraretransitiveTo deobstruct

    [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.

    1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities”, in Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6

Origin

From de- + oppilate.

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APA

deoppilate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoppilate

MLA

“deoppilate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoppilate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deoppilate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoppilate.

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