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Declaw

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To remove the claws from: declaw a cat.

v. To strip of power, potency, or strength; make harmless or less threatening.

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v. To surgically remove the claws from.

v. To make harmless.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to remove the claws from, -- used especially with a cat as an object.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. remove the claws from

Word Usage

"BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9 (UPI) -- Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use."

Verb Form

declawing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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