trepan
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Synonyms: trevan, trapan, trepak, tregan, trehan, trypan
Antonyms: trevan, trapan, trepak, tregan, trehan, trypan
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Noun
- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
Verb
- To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
- To use a trepan; to trephine.
Noun
- Alternative spelling of trapan (“act of entrapping or tricking; thing which entraps or tricks; (archaic or obsolete) person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim”)
Verb
- Alternative spelling of trapan (“to catch or entrap (a person or animal) in a snare or trap; (figurative) to trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim”)
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