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Questions about operate on

What does operate on mean?

operate on means "perform surgery on".

What is another word for operate on?

Close synonyms include operate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is operate on a common word?

operate on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for operate on come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.