MEANING
To tear or remove skin from underlying tissue over a body part, as in a serious traumatic injury.
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Words that belong together
- a degloved hand
- a degloving injury
- deglove a finger
On the page
The machinery had degloved two fingers before the emergency stop engaged.
The surgeon explained that the injury had degloved the hand rather than merely cut its surface.
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Word forms
- Base
- deglove
- Past tense
- degloved
- Past participle
- degloved
- Present participle
- degloving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deglove
- Present continuous
- am/is/are degloving
- Present perfect
- have/has degloved
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been degloving
- Past
- degloved
- Past continuous
- was/were degloving
- Past perfect
- had degloved
- Past perfect continuous
- had been degloving
- Future
- will deglove
- Future continuous
- will be degloving
- Future perfect
- will have degloved
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been degloving
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deglove; degloves; degloved; degloved; degloving Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: degloves.
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