circumcise
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove the prepuce of (a male), especially as a religious rite.
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to remove the clitoris, prepuce, or labia of (a female).
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to purify spiritually.
verb
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to remove the foreskin of (a male)
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to incise surgically the skin over the clitoris of (a female)
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to remove the clitoris of (a female)
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to perform the religious rite of circumcision on (someone)
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have circumcisedperfect
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has circumcisedperfect 3rd person singular
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has been circumcisingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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are circumcisingprogressive
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am circumcisingprogressive 1st person singular
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is circumcisingprogressive 3rd person singular
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have been circumcisingperfect progressive
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circumcisingparticiple
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circumcisessingular 3rd person
Past
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had circumcisedperfect
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had been circumcisingperfect progressive
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were circumcisingprogressive plural
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was circumcisingprogressive singular
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circumcisedparticiple
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circumcisedsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of circumcise
1200–50; Middle English circumcisen < Latin circumcīsus (past participle of circumcīdere to cut around), equivalent to circum- circum- + -cīsus ( -cīd- cut + -tus past participle suffix; see -cide)
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