operate on

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verb

perform surgery on
- The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life
• Syn:
operate
• Derivationally related forms:
operative (for: operate), operation (for: operate)
• Topics:
medicine, practice of medicine
• Hypernyms:
treat, care for
• Hyponyms:
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize,
desexualise, fix, face-lift, lift, trephine, venesect
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Did he operate on his foot?