MEANING
To cut or drill an opening in the skull.
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Words that belong together
- trepan a skull
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The historical account described how surgeons trepanned a skull.
The instrument was designed to trepan bone.
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Word forms
- Base
- trepan
- Past tense
- trepanned
- Past participle
- trepanned
- Present participle
- trepanning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- trepan
- Present continuous
- am/is/are trepanning
- Present perfect
- have/has trepanned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been trepanning
- Past
- trepanned
- Past continuous
- was/were trepanning
- Past perfect
- had trepanned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been trepanning
- Future
- will trepan
- Future continuous
- will be trepanning
- Future perfect
- will have trepanned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been trepanning
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: trepan; trepans; trepanned; trepanned; trepanning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: trepans.
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