ablate

Meaning

Verb

• To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
• To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.

Origin

• Derived from Middle English ablat, from Latin ablatum, past participle of auferre; ab-- + ferre. First attested in the 1500s, it became obsolete by the early 1600s. Returned into use as a .