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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes;
- Example: "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Abacinate \A*bac"i*nate\ ([.a]*b[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. [LL.
   abacinatus, p. p. of abacinare; ab off + bacinus a basin.]
   To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

abacinate
    v 1: blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's
         eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"