MEANING
To open by splitting along a natural line or a previously closed wound.
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Words that belong together
- wound dehisces
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The wound dehisced after strain.
The dry seed capsule dehisced.
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Word forms
- Base
- dehisce
- Past tense
- dehisced
- Past participle
- dehisced
- Present participle
- dehiscing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dehisce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dehiscing
- Present perfect
- have/has dehisced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dehiscing
- Past
- dehisced
- Past continuous
- was/were dehiscing
- Past perfect
- had dehisced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dehiscing
- Future
- will dehisce
- Future continuous
- will be dehiscing
- Future perfect
- will have dehisced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dehiscing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dehisce; dehisces; dehisced; dehisced; dehiscing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dehisces.
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